An estimated 280 million people in India, as well as 280 million in China, regularly speak English. If ASEAN and other Asian countries are included, the tally reaches an astonishing 800 million people ...

THE phenomenal spread of English around the world has resulted in multiple forms of the language. The world has seen the emergence of many different Englishes, such as Hong Kong English, Indian ...

“Most recently, ‘plain speaking’ has been cited by leave voters in post-referendum Britain as one of the defining features of ‘Englishness’,” notes Margaret Tudeau-Clayton about Brexit. The central ...

EVERY year, the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) and De La Salle University (DLSU) honor esteemed linguists with The Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics ...

Dutch artist Nicoline van Harskamp makes videos in which she explores spoken language. In a work called «My Name is Language», everyone are in a waiting room (which gives the impression of being in an ...

The study of World Englishes examines how English adapts, diversifies and stabilises across varied sociocultural and geographic contexts. Moving beyond traditional norms of British and American usage, ...

One way of predicting the future is to look back at the past. The global role English plays today as a lingua franca – used as a means of communication by speakers of different languages – has ...

English is rapidly becoming a lingua franca in international communication for commerce and trade, education, science, international relations and tourism. It is the fastest growing language in the ...

"If you talk about internationalisation," the professor of global Englishes told Times Higher Education, "you have to extend that to the language people are using." She said that students who are not ...