Seminar für Englische Philologie
Universität Göttingen
Here is a selective bibliography containing several publications dealing with regional varieties of English. The list is divided into three parts.
Contents:
1. BASE TEXTS
Hogg, R., et al. eds.,
The Cambridge History of the English Language, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1992-2001)
McArthur, T.,
Oxford Guide to World English (Oxford, 2002)
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2. GENERAL PUBLICATIONS
Bauer, L.,
An Introduction to International Varieties of English (Edinburgh, 2003)
Baugh, A. C., and T. Cable,
A History of the English Language, 5th ed. (London, 2002) (Old English dialects, Middle English dialects, America)
Crystal, D.,
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2003), chapter 20
Crystal, D.,
English as a Global Language (Cambridge, 2003)
Jenkins, J.,
World Englishes: a Resource Book for Students (London, 2003)
Kachru, B. B., Y. Kachru, and C. L. Nelson, ed.,
The Handbook of World Englishes (Oxford, 2006)
Kortmann, B., and E. W. Schneider, ed.,
A Handbook of Varieties of English, 2 vols. and CD-ROM (Berlin and New York, 2004)
Melchers, G., and P. Shaw,
World Englishes (London, 2003)
Svartvik, J., and G. Leech,
English: One Tongue, Many Voices (Basingstoke, 2006)
Trudgill, P., and J. Hannah,
International English: a Guide to the Varieties of Standard English, 4th ed. (London, 2002)
Wells, J. C.,
Accents of English, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1982)
Series: Varieties of English around the World
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3. SPECIFIC VARIANTS
Bergs, A.,
Modern Scots, 2nd ed., Languages of the World Materials 242 (Munich, 2005)
Burridge, K., and J. Mulder,
English in Australia and New Zealand (Oxford, 1998)
Cassidy, F. G.,
Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica, 2nd ed. (London, 1971)
Corbett, J., J. D. McClure and J. Stuart-Smith, eds.,
The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (Edinburgh, 2003)
Dillard, J. L.,
A History of American English (Harlow, 1992)
Görlach, M.,
A Textual History of Scots (Heidelberg, 2002)
Görlach, M., ed.,
English in Europe (Oxford, 2002)
Jones, C.,
The English Language in Scotland: an Introduction to Scots (East Linton, 2002)
McIntosh, A., M. L. Samuels, M. Benskin, M. Laing and K. Williamson,
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English, 4 vols. (Aberdeen, 1986)
Schmied, J. J.,
English in Africa: an Introduction (London and New York, 1991)
Smith, A. H., ed.,
Three Northumbrian Poems, rev. ed. (Exeter, 1990)
Tottie, G.,
An Introduction to American English (Oxford, 2002)
Trudgill, P., ed.,
Language in the British Isles (Cambridge, 1984)
Trudgill, P.,
The Dialects of England, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1999)
Wolfram, W., and N. Schilling-Estes,
American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2006)
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