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Supplementary text
Trudgill, P. & J. Hannah. 2002. International English: a guide to varieties of standard English. 3rd ed. London: Routledge.
Other useful readings available on short-term loan
Hughes, Arthur & Peter Trudgill. 1987. English accents and dialects: an introduction to social and regional varieties of British English. London: Edward Arnold.
Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1997. English with an accent: language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States. London: Routledge.
Trudgill, Peter & J. K. Chambers. 1991. Dialects of English: studies in grammatical variation. London: Longman.
Wolfram, Walt & Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1998. American English: dialects and variation. Oxford: Blackwell.
Other useful references
There are three periodicals of particular interest: English Today, World Englishes and English World-wide. The edited series Varieties of English is also a useful reference.
Further reading
The following are some useful texts available at the University of Auckland Library.
Allen, H.B. and M.D. Linn. 1986. Dialect and Language Variation. Orlando, Fl: Academic Press.
Bauer, L., 1994. Watching English Change. London: Longman.
Baugh, A.C. and T. Cable. 1993. A History of the English Language. 4th edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
Bayard, D. 1995. Kiwitalk. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
Bell, A. and J. Holmes (eds), 1990. New Zealand Ways to Speak English. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Chambers, J.K. 1980. Dialectology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Cheshire, J. (ed.). 1991. English around the world: sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dillard, J. 1972. Black English. New York: Random House.
Downes, W. 1998. Language & Society. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gordon, E. and T. Deverson. 1989. Finding a New Zealand Voice. Auckland: New House Publishers.
Graddol, D., D. Leith, and J. Swann. 1996. English: history, diversity and change. The Open University/Routledge
Horvath, B.M. 1985. Variation in Australian English: the sociolects of Sydney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hughes, A. and P. Trudgill. 1987. English accents and Dialects: an introduction to social and regional varieties of British English. London: Edward Arnold.
Kachru, B.B. 1992. The Other Tongue: English across Cultures. Urbana: University of Ilinois Press.
Kachru, B.B. 1986. The Alchemy of English. The spread, functions and models of non-native Englishes. New York: Pergamon.
de Klerk, V. (ed.), 1996. Focus on South Africa. Varieties Around the World 15. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Lanham, L. W. and C.A. MacDonald. 1985. The Standard in South African English and its Social History. 2nd ed. Heidelberg: Groos.
Llamzon, T.A. 1969. A Standard Filipino English. Manila: Ateneo University Press.
McConnell, R.E. 1979. Our Voice: Canadian English and how it is studied. Toronto: Gage.
Milroy, J. and L. Milroy. 1991. Authority in Language: investigating language prescription and standardisation. 2nd ed. London: Routledge Kegan Paul.
Milroy, J. and L. Milroy (eds.), 1993. Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles. London: Longman.
Nihalani, P, R.K. Tongue and P. Hosali. 1979. Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunication. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
OMuirithe, D. (ed), 1977. The English Language in Ireland. Dublin: Mercier Press.
Platt, J., Weber, H, Ho, M. L. , and M. Lian. 1984. The New Englishes. London: Routledge.
Platt, J. and H. Weber. 1980. English in Singapore and Malaysia. Oxford: OUP.
Pyles T. and J. Algeo. 1993. The Origins and Development of the English Language. 4th edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich.
Romaine, S. 1992. Language, Education and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea. Oxford Studies in Language Contact. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Scargill, M.H. 1977. A Short History of Canadian English. Victoria: Sono Nis Press.
Schmied, J. 1991. English in Africa: An Introduction. London: Longman.
Sebba, M. 1993. London Jamaican: Language Systems in Interaction. Harlow: Longman.
Strang, B.M.H. 1970. A History of English. London: Methuen.
Trudgill, P. (ed). 1984. Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Trudgill, P. 1990. The Dialects of English. Cambridge: Blackwell.
Trudgill, P. and J. Hannah. 1994. International English: a guide to varieties of Standard English. 3rd edition. London: Edward Arnold.
Wells, J.C. 1982. Accents of Engish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wolfram, Walt and Natalie Schilliing-Estes. 1998. American English. Cambridge University Press.
