@inbook{512257e0049b4ea98fae297a1ebc81ec,
title = "World Englishes and linguistic border crossings",
abstract = "Over the last decade sociolinguistics has seen a noticeable burst of academic activity around the topic of what I shall call {\textquoteleft}linguistic border crossings, to slightly paraphrase Rampton (1995). Books, journal articles and conference presentations containing words such as {\textquoteleft}translanguaging{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}translingual practices{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}language hybridity{\textquoteright} and similar have become increasingly frequent. To some extent, this has left the analytical framework of World Englishes in a position where it needs to catch up with these recent developments (see, for example, Schneider 2016). Using a few extracts from Facebook conversations as illustrative of the language practices in question, in this chapter I discuss this very gap that is emerging between some of the latest advancements in sociolinguistics and the World Englishes framework. I then conclude by remarking that the original spirit that in the Eighties induced a paradigm shift that brought about the very concept of Englishes needs to be rekindled in order for the paradigm to continue to shift.",
author = "Mario Saraceni",
note = "The chapter has been reviewed and the editors have consequently accepted it. Minor amendments will be made to the manuscript, so the version uploaded is not the final draft.",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
day = "3",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1138673076",
series = "Routledge Studies in World Englishes",
publisher = "Routledge",
editor = "Low, {Ee Ling} and Anne Pakir",
booktitle = "World Englishes",
address = "United States",
}