Bringing together an international range of contributors, this book explores face-to-face uses of English in a range of grassroots multilingual contexts.

• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Contributors
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction: English Spreading at the Grassroots
• CHAPTER 2 Grassroots English, Learner English, Second-language English, English as a Lingua Franca …: What’s in a Name
• PART I: English at the grassroots in former spheres of British interest
• CHAPTER 3 The Sociolinguistic Profile of English at the Grassroots Level: A Comparison of Northern and Western Uganda
• CHAPTER 4 English Language Learning Trajectories among Zanzibaris Working in Tourism
• CHAPTER 5 Access to English and the Englishes of the Disadvantaged: Examples from Uganda and South Africa
• CHAPTER 6 Artistic Re-creation of Grassroots English: Ideologies and Structures in English Vinglish
• PART II: English in trade and work migratio
• CHAPTER 7 Facets of Intercultural Communication Employed in the Conversations of Local Arab Traders in Bahrain
• CHAPTER 8 The Value of Grassroots English for Bangladeshi Migrants to the Middle East
• CHAPTER 9 Grassroots Diffusion of English in a ‘Blue-collar’ Workplace: The Case of a Multilingual Cleaning Company in New Jersey, USA
• PART III: English in forced migration
• CHAPTER 10 Language Use among Syrian Refugees in Germany
• CHAPTER 11 Uprooted Speakers’ Grassroots English: Metalinguistic Perspectives of Asylum Seekers in Germany
• CHAPTER 12 Onward Migration from Italy to the UK: Reshaped Linguistic Repertoires and the Role of English
• Index