The Other Tongue English Across Cultures

"An important book. . . . The Other Tongue should prove of great value to linguists, literary scholars, teachers of English as a foreign/second language, language policy planners, and users of 'nativized' Englishes."--Robert Kaplan, Applied Linguistics "An important volume for any teacher of English who is confronted with a variety of localized forms of English, or who is interested in the complex nature and development of the language we use and teach. It not only provides a shock of recognition; it presents the teacher with a clear way to analyze the uses of English that may obtain in a polydialectal classroom."--Alan C. Purves, College of English "Valuable for teachers who want to look that little bit further into relating language in the classroom to what goes on outside."--John Norrish, ELT Journal

Braj B. Kachru is professor of linguistics, comparative literature, education, and English as an International Language at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is co-editor of World Englishes and the author of The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions, and Models of Non-native Englishes, which was awarded joint first prize in the Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Competition in 1987.