Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes: An Advanced Textbook for Students - Paperback

by Will Baker (Author), Tomokazu Ishikawa (Author)

This textbook introduces current thinking on English as a global language and explores its role in intercultural and transcultural communication. This is key reading for all advanced students and researchers in Global or World Englishes, English as a Lingua franca, and Intercultural Communication.

Author Biography

Will Baker is Director of the Centre for Global Englishes and an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. Publications include: co-editor of The Routledge handbook of English as a lingua franca (2018), author of the monograph Culture and identity through English as a lingua franca (2015), and co-editor of the book series "Developments in English as lingua franca" (2013-).

Tomokazu Ishikawa is an Assistant Professor at Tamagawa University's Center for English as a Lingua Franca, Tokyo, Japan and a postdoctoral member at the University of Southampton's Centre for Global Englishes. He has published on ELF, mainly in relation to multilingualism, language attitudes and ideologies, and ELT.