The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies
Routledge Handbooks in English Language Studies Series

TheRoutledge Handbook of English Language Studies provides a comprehensive overview of English Language Studies. The book takes a three-pronged approach to examine what constitutes the phenomenon of the English language; why and in what contexts it is an important subject to study; and what the chief methodologies are that are used to study it. In 30 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, this Handbook covers and critically examines:

• English Language Studies as a discipline that is changing and evolving in response to local and global pressures;
• definitions of English, including world Englishes, contact Englishes, and historical and colonial perspectives;
• the relevance of English in areas such as teaching, politics and the media;
• analysis of English situated in wider linguistics contexts, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography.

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies is essential reading for researchers and students working in fields related to the teaching and study of the English language in any context.

An introduction to English Language Studies

PART 1: Defining English

1. The idea of English
2. The historical study of English
3. English and colonialism
4. World Englishes: disciplinary debates and future directions
5. English and multilingualism: a contested history
6. Standards in English
7. Contact Englishes
8. The phonology of English
9. The grammars of English

PART 2: The Relevance of English

10. The relevance of English language studies in higher education
11. Literacy in English: Literacies in Englishes
12. Teaching English as an additional language in Anglophone and Brazilian contexts: different curriculum approaches
13. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
14. English and social identity
15. Language, gender and sexuality
16. The politics of English
17. Persuasive language
18. Literature and the English language
19. The language of creative writing
20. Media, power, and representation
21. The language of social media

PART 3: Analysing English

22. Stylistics: studying literary and everyday style in English
23. Sociolinguistics: studying English and its social relations
24. Corpus linguistics: studying language as part of the digital humanities
25. Discourse analysis: studying and critiquing language in use
26. Linguistic ethnography: studying English language, cultures and practices
27. The psycholinguistics of English
28. Metaphor Studies and English
29. Multimodal English
30. English and translation

Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK.

Ann Hewings is Director of Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK.

Stephen Pihlaja is Reader in Stylistics at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.