Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Methodological issues in distinguishing varieties -- New Englishes and the emergence of the unmarked -- Methodological choices in language variation analysis -- Globalisation and the transnational impact of non-standard varieties -- The circle of English: an exploration of the "core" and "periphery" of world Englishes -- Part 2. Studies of features in particular contexts -- A robust, living substratum: contact and sociolinguistic factors in the evolution of a variety of Black English in Kimberley, South Africa -- Got in Singapore English -- Diasporic mixing of World Englishes: the case of Jamaican Creole in Toronto -- System and society in the evolution of change: the view from Canada -- A diachronic study of pseudo-titles and related appositives in the press reportage of British and American newspapers -- The Diffusion of I need you to + infinitive in world Englishes -- Index