This comprehensive treatment of intelligibility in world Englishes provides an overview of the definitions and scopes of intelligibility, comprehensibility and interpretability, and addresses key topics within this paradigm.
Cecil L. Nelson is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Indiana State University.
Foreword, Larry E. Smith
Preface
Acknowledgements
Ch. 1: "Understanding" and Intelligibility in World Englishes
Ch. 2: Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, Interpretability
Ch. 3: Hybridity, Creativity and Intelligibility in World Englishes
Ch. 4: Other Conceptualizations of Intelligibility
Ch. 5: Intelligibility in English Language Teaching
Ch. 6: Intelligibility and the On-Going Expansions of Englishes
Annotated Bibliography
Index