World Englishes for specific purposes: A multi-perspective view

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) discourses largely involve participants from different linguistic backgrounds in terms of their regional, economic, and sociocultural settings. Moreover, due to the globalisation of trade and commerce across international borders, professional practices invariably involve multiperspective interactions and negotiations across a range of participants interacting with speakers of English as a second or foreign language. However, although ESP targets speakers of languages other than English, it has often been driven by native speakers' use of English in specific academic and professional contexts. Drawing on some of the key insights from critical genre theory, I would like to give more substance to this aspect of ESP and argue for a shift in the paradigm towards world Englishes for Specific Purposes (WESP).