This collection of essays covers such topics as: the English of West Indian students; style and register in Jamaican Patwa; aspects of the syntax of Nigerian English; English in Japan; Philippine English; Indian pidgin English; and Australian English as a national language.

1. For Manfred Gorlach on the occasion of his 60th birthday (by Schneider, Edgar W.); 2. Introduction (by Schneider, Edgar W.); 3. I. The Caribbean; 4. The English of West Indian university students (by Craig, Dennis R.); 5. One people, one nation, one destiny: Race, ethnicity and Guyanese sociolinguistic identity (by Haynes, Lilith M.); 6. Style and register in Jamaican Patwa (by Patrick, Peter L.); 7. Requiem for English in an "English-speaking" community: The case of Jamaica (by Shields-Brodber, Kathryn); 8. Six vernacular texts from Trinidad, 1838-1851 (by Winer, Lise S.); 9. II. Africa; 10. Aspects of the syntax of Nigerian English (by Banjo, Ayo); 11. Encounters with English over three generations in a Xhosa family: For better or for worse? (by de Klerk, Vivian); 12. A sociolinguistic study of topicalisation phenomena in South African Black English (by Mesthrie, Rajend); 13. Beyond recipes, beyond Maks, beyond Africa. Texts, text-types, text collections and African realities (by Schmied, Josef J.); 14. The lexis of South African English: Reflections of a multilingual society (by Pienaar, L.); 15. III. Asia; 16. The English language in Japan (by Bailey, Richard W.); 17. Misrecognitions of variability in new varieties of English: Tamil minority usage in Singapore English (by Begum, Rizwana); 18. Philippine English: A variety in search of legitimation (by Gonzalez, Fsc, Andrew); 19. Negation in Indian Pidgin English (by Mehrotra, Raja Ram); 20. Grammatical properties of Milhne Bay English and their sources (by Muhlhausler, Peter); 21. Malaysian English: Status, norms, some grammatical and lexical features (by Newbrook, Mark); 22. IV. Australia and New Zealand; 23. Attempting to trace Scottish influence on New Zealand English (by Bauer, Laurie); 24. Selecting South-East Asian words for an Australian dictionary: How to choose in an English not your own (by Butler, Susan); 25. Pluricentric languages and national identity - an antipodean view (by Clyne, Michael); 26. Fowler's legacy (by Peters, Pam); 27. Scots as a literary language in Australia (by Tulloch, Graham); 28. Australian English as a national language (by Turner, George W.); 29. Addresses of authors; 30. Subject index