摘要：This collection, edited by Andy Kirkpatrick, adds some very interesting contributions to the now robust literature on World Englishes that has developed in linguistics and sociolinguistics since the late 1970s. With the impact of globalization on language of core concern to current linguistics theory, an edition on World Englishes is certainly an indispensable part of the Routledge Series of Handbooks in Applied Linguistics. Yet at first glance the literature in this area, which tends to centre on contributions to the flagship journal World Englishes, seems somewhat crowded with handbooks and resource books. The 2006 Handbook of World Englishes edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru and Cecil L. Nelson is considered by many to be a milestone publication, and Jennifer Jenkins’s WorldEnglishes. A resource book for students, revised in its 2nd edition in 2009, is a greatly valued source book for teachers of undergraduate students in the field. Indeed, the RoutledgeHandbook of World Englishes has much in common with Kachru, Kachru and Nelson’s 2006 Handbook in particular, in terms of both authors and themes.
