Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glossary -- Preface -- 1. Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language -- 2. The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics -- 3. Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire -- 4. The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy -- 5. Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English -- 6. The Becoming of a World Language -- 7. Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change -- 8. The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language -- 9. The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence -- 10. Decentering English Applied Linguistics -- Appendices -- References -- Index