Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects varieties and creoles even
as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The
book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto English as an L2 in a South
African mining township Chinese and English contact in Singapore unexpected emergent
variants in Canadian English and innovations in the English of West Virginia. Further the
book offers some perspective on internet English as well as on abiding uniformities in the
lexicon and grammar of standard varieties. In the analyses of this heterogeneous growth such
considerations as speakers' sociolinguistic profiles phonological morpho-syntactic and
lexical variables frequencies and typological patterns provide ample insight in the current
status of English both in oral and electronic communities. The opening chapter presents a
theoretical framework that argues for linguistic typology as conceptually resourceful in
accommodating techniques of analysis and in distinguishing the wide arrays of English found
throughout the globe. One clear function for Faces of English is that of a catalyst: to spur
studies of diversities in English (and in other languages) to suggest approaches to adapt to
invite counterargument and developments in analysis.
