This is an important book that scholars and their students working within both the world Englishes and Creole Studies frameworks will find very useful.
- Walter F. Edwards, Wayne State University, in World Englishes 33(3): 416-418, 2014,
This volume offers fresh and exciting insights into one of the hotspots of English around the world. It is a must-read for anyone interested in contact linguistics at large and language variation in the Caribbean in particular - highly recommended!
- Daniel Schreier, University of Zurich,
This important volume stands out by being both focused and far-reaching in its treatment of variation in pidgin and creole languages. With this edited volume, Hinrichs and Farquharson revivify the central role of variation in creole studies. They do so by bringing dominant strands of current work in quantitative sociolinguistics to bear on creole languages, namely the role of variation in contact linguistics and likewise the role of variation in the study of language and identity. Several articles in the volume aptly expand the social realm of creole studies by focusing on creole societies in diaspora.
- John V. Singler, New York University,