• Over 1,400 fascinating, readable A to Z entries on all aspects of the English language, including more than 130 new entries
• Increased focus on the international perspective, with new entries including African American English, China English, English as an Additional Language (EAL), multicultural London English, superdiversity, and translanguaging, and significant expansion of other relevant entries
• Heavily expanded coverage of the effect of technology on the English language, in new entries such as blog, Computer-Mediated Communication, digital literacy, online language play, social networking sites, Virtual Learning Environment, and Web 1.0 and 2.0
• Expansion of the area of English language teaching, with entries such as Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ELT, English Language Arts, English Medium Instruction (EMI), and substantial revision of the entry on Language Teaching
• Updated information on linguistic theory, including new entries on conversation analysis, ecolinguistics, functional grammars, and multimodality

 
New to this Edition:

• Increased focus on the international perspective, with new entries including African American English, China English, English as an Additional Language (EAL), multicultural London English, superdiversity, and translanguaging, and significant expansion of other relevant entries
• Heavily expanded coverage of the effect of technology on the English language, in new entries such as blog, Computer-Mediated Communication, digital literacy, online language play, social networking sites, Virtual Learning Environment, and Web 1.0 and 2.0
• Expansion of the area of English language teaching, with entries such as Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ELT, English Language Arts, English Medium Instruction (EMI), and a substantial revision of the entry on Language Teaching
• Updated information on linguistic theory, including new entries on conversation analysis, ecolinguistics, functional grammars, and multimodality

  
The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international perspective, covering topics from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. It succinctly described and discussed the English language at the end of the twentieth century, including its distribution and varieties, its cultural, political, and educational impact worldwide, its nature, origins, and prospects, and its pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, word-formation, and usage.
 
This new edition notably focuses on World Englishes, English language teaching, English as an international language, and the effect of technological advances on the English language. More than 130 new entries include African American English, British Sign Language, China English, digital literacy, multimodality, social networking, superdiversity, and text messaging, among many others. It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades, including Beryl (Sue) Atkins, Adam Kilgariff, and John Sinclair.
 
It is an invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for any general reader with an interest in language.