Russian English
History, Functions, and Features

Editors

Zoya G. Proshina, Moscow State University
Zoya G. Proshina, Doctor of Philology (Habil.), is a Professor at the Moscow State University. Her research interests include World Englishes, sociolinguistics, translation studies and intercultural communication. She was guest-editor of a special issue of the World Englishes journal on Russian Englishes and has contributed to the Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education, and Communicating with Asia (Cambridge, 2016). She is the sole author of Crossroads: English-Russian Dictionary of East Asian Culture Contacts (2004), The ABC and Controversies of World Englishes (2007), and Theory of Translation: English–Russian, Russian–English (2008). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook of World Englishes. In 2011–12 she was President of the International Association for World Englishes.

Anna A. Eddy, University of Michigan, Flint
Anna A. Eddy holds a position of an Assessment Specialist at the English Language Program at the University of Michigan, Flint. She obtained a Ph.D. in Modern Languages from Wayne State University, Michigan with the focus on sociolinguistics of World Englishes. Her research interests include the use of English in non-native contexts, teaching of English as a global language, second language methodologies and curriculum design. She serves as a site reviewer for the Commission on English Language Accreditation and as a Vice President-Elect for Standards at EnglishUSA.

Contributors

Anna A. Eddy, Zoya G. Proshina, Alexandra Rivlina, Svetlana Ter-Minasova, Elena Beloglazova, Victor Kabakchi, Victoria Zavyalova, Anna Ionina, Tatiana Ivankova, Elena Salakyan, Irina Krykova, Olesya Lazaretnaya, Galina Lovtsevich, Elena Lawrick, Irina Ustinova, Evgenia Butenina, Maria Lebedko