ABSTRACT
The previous chapters have demonstrated that conventions of language use are different in different regions of the English-using world. Chapters 8 and 9 have suggested ways of informing ourselves about these conventions by drawing upon research findings in conversational styles and rhetorical practices. In this chapter we would like to explore the possibility of utilizing another resource for familiarizing ourselves with world Englishes. The resource is creative literature produced by Outer and Expanding Circle writers within or outside these Circles. These have been termed “contact literatures” (B. Kachru, 1986c) and we will use this term throughout this chapter instead of the more cumbersome “Outer and Expanding Circle English literatures.”
