The Variability of Current World Englishes

Foreword

Seven chapters in this book had their first audiences at the second meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, June 17–21, 2011, in Boston, Massachusetts. These chapters, together with two others, those by Charles F. Meyer and Eugene Green, who together with other New England colleagues organized the meeting, offer a first collection of ISLE’s studies. Our hope is that subsequent meetings will bring to publication representative chapters of scholarly research under the aegis of ISLE. We gladly acknowledge, as part of the enterprise in gathering the chapters included, the support of ISLE’s membership who voted to come to Boston University for the 2011 meeting, contributed to its spirited success, and advised ...