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1 online resource (385 pages) |
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction Anna Mauranen -- (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)intelligible? ELF Speakers' Perceptions of Their Accents Jennifer Jenkins -- Orientations in ELF Research: Form and Function Barbara Seidlhofer -- English as a Lingua Franca: Heightened Variability and Theoretical Implications Martin Dewey -- Syntactic Features in Spoken ELF -- Learner Language or Spoken Grammar? Elina Ranta -- Pre-Empting Problems of Understanding in English as a Lingua Franca Jagdish Kaur -- English as a Lingua Franca in Multinational Corporations -- Exploring Business Communities of Practice Susanne Ehrenreich -- No Joke -- This is Serious! Power, Solidarity and Humour in Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) Patricia Pullin Stark -- Students on Exchange in Scandinavia: Motivation, Interaction, ELF Development Philip Shaw, Tim Caudery and Margrethe Petersen -- Emic Evaluations and Interactive Processes in a Classroom Community of Practice Ute Smit -- From Code to Discourse in Spoken ELF Beyza Björkman -- Accommodating Difference in ELF Conversations: A Study of Pragmatic Strategies Alessia Cogo -- Fluent Speakers -- Fluent Interactions: On the Creation of (Co)-Fluency in English as a Lingua Franca Julia Hüttner -- "We should not wake up any dogs": Idiom and Metaphor in ELF Marie-Luise Pitzl -- "We don't take the right way. We just take the way that we think you will understand" -- The Shifting Relationship between Correctness and Effectiveness in ELF Cornelia Hülmbauer -- "She's mixing the two languages together" -- Forms and Functions of Code-Switching in English as a Lingua Franca Theresa Klimpfinger -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
| Summary |
English as a lingua franca has become a hot topic in Applied Linguistics and English Studies. While it has been a subject of controversy for some time, linguistic observations on actual use have largely been missing out of the debate. This is now changing fast, and the study of English as a Lingua Franca has become a vibrant research field. This book reflects achievements of the growing field; it presents a good selection of empirical findings, thus providing substance to arguments. It comprises contributions from pioneers and established scholars in the field, along with reports from substantial ongoing research projects. The papers offer insights into the workings of English as a lingua franca in different contexts 'Aï ̀conversational, academic, professional, and business situations. They tackle essential theoretical issues, analyse linguistic and interactional features of ELF, and discuss attitudes towards ELF. The studies are firmly anchored in analyses of authentic language in social interaction, some also using survey and interview data. Many papers also touch upon debates on language policy and linguistic ideologies. This collection of papers from the key areas of current ELF research is of interest to English linguists and applied linguists, graduate and undergraduate students of English, educational and language planners, and teachers of English |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries
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English language -- Globalization.
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Linguistics.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Bilingualism & multilingualism.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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English language -- Globalization
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English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries
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Verkehrssprache
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Fremdsprache.
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Weltsprache.
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Englisch.
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Globalisierung.
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Helsinki (2008)
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Kongress.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mauranen, Anna
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Ranta, Elina
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| LC no. |
2009288671 |
| ISBN |
9781443815819 |
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1443815810 |
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1282414747 |
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9781282414747 |
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9786612414749 |
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661241474X |
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