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This book demonstrates, in the context of the Bobdian thinking and beyond, that world Englishes and creole languages today display interesting sociolinguistic, typological and pedagogic trends and tendencies. These trends and tendencies have been investigated and reported by Rajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein, Thorsten Brato, Hans-Georg Wolf & Arne Peters, Leslie Barratt, Akinmade Timothy Akande, Christian Mair & Bridget Fonkeu, John Victor Singler, Maria Mazzoli, Ogechi Florence Agbo & Ingo Plag, Ian Hancock, Aloysius Ngefac, Blasius Achiri-Taboh and Jemima Akosua Anderson. The book is unique and differs from previous works in many ways. First and foremost, it is one of the rare works that overtly bring world Englishes and creole languages together in the same volume, providing an opportunity for current trends to be investigated in the context of the groundbreaking work that Augustin Simo Bobda has already carried out in these two subfields of linguistics. Second, some paradigms in world Englishes and creole languages have been tested in different parts of the world with reference to current data and the results are reported in this book. Third, the book serves as a forum for reflections beyond the Bobdian thinking.Table of ContentsEditors' prefaceAloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann Laudatio for Augustin Simo BobdaAloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann World Englishes and creole languages today: IntroductionAloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann Part One: World Englishes and the Bobdian ThinkingInvestigating possible changes to the TRAP vowel in Black South African English:A (post)Bobdian analysisRajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein Studying vowels in African Englishes - Past, present, and futureThorsten Brato African witchcraft revisited:New cognitive-sociolinguistic findings from a comparative perspectiveHans-Georg Wolf & Arne Peters Strategies for infusing World Englishes throughout educationLeslie Barrat I am loving you: The use of stative verbs in the progressive form in some African EnglishesAkinmade Timothy Part Two: Creole Languages and the Bobdian ThinkingSee me see wahala? West African Pidgin in the German diasporaChristian Mair & Bridget Fonokeu Number marking in Liberian KolokwaJohn Victor Singler Tone in Naija: An elicitation experiment on the prosodic realization of copular andimperfective /de/ and its consequence for spellingMaria Mazzoli Code-switching patterns of educated English-Nigerian Pidgin bilinguals in NigeriaOgechi Florence Agbo & Ingo Plag Nar oosie Creeo' commot? Na usai Krio kohmoht? Na usay Krio k m t?Ian Hancock Cameroon Creole English as a bridge between the past and the present:Lessons for the sustainable development of CameroonAloysius Ngefac Part Three: Beyond the Bobdian ThinkingQuestion tags seek pragmatic benefits, isn't it?:On the formal properties of question tags and how they function in World EnglishesBlasius Achiri-Taboh The pragmatics of excuse me to say in Ghanaian EnglishJemima Akosua Anderson

World Englishes and Creole Languages Today: Vol. II: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond