This volume sets out to investigate the linguistic ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai, with chapters that combine empirical and theoretical approaches to the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. One important feature of this publication is that the five parts of the collection deal with such key issues as the historical dimension, language policies and language planning, contemporary societal multilingualism, multilingual language acquisition, and the localized Englishes of global cities. The first four sections of the volume provide a multi-levelled and finely-detailed description of multilingual diversity of three global cities, while the final section discusses postcolonial Englishes in the context of multilingual language acquisition and language contact.
About the Author: Peter Siemund has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany since 2001. He pursues a cross-linguistic typological approach in his work on reflexivity and self-intensifiers, pronominal gender, interrogative constructions, speech acts and clause types, argument structure, tense and aspect, varieties of English, language contact, and multilingual development. His publications include, as author, Pronominal gender in English: A study of English varieties from a cross-linguistic perspective (2008), The amazing world of Englishes. A practical introduction (with Julia Davydova and Georg Maier, 2012), Varieties of English: A typological approach (2013), and Speech acts and clause types: English in a cross-linguistic context (2018), and, as editor, Language contact and contactlanguages (with Noemi Kintana, 2008), Linguistic universals and language variation (2011), and Foreign language education in multilingual classrooms (with Andreas Bonnet, 2018).
Jakob R. E. Leimgruber is Lecturer at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focusses on world Englishes and on English in multilingual contexts. He is the author of Singapore English: Variation, structure, and use (2013) and Language planning and policy in Quebec: A comparative perspective (2019).
