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