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  1. www.nature.com › articles › s41599/024/02821-zEnglish language hegemony: retrospect and prospect - Nature

    Feb 26, 2024 · This paper explores the ascent of English as a global lingua franca within the context of linguistic hegemony, following Phillipson’s 1992 framework.

  2. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › fullEmplacing English as lingua franca in international higher ...

    This statement reflects the rendering of English as the lingua franca of academia. Here, the need for a lingua franca (currently English) in academia can be seen as a legitimate one, as it enables international cooperation among those who share the language, but in such an environment, not having ‘the right' English skills means not being ...

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  4. link.springer.com › chapter › 10The Impact of English as a Global Lingua Franca on ... - Springer

    • Recourse to Speakers’ Mother Tongues
    • Accommodation: Frequency of The Multi-Functional “Represent” Gambit
    • Co-Constructing Utterances to Show Solidarity and Consensus

    Such recourse was, for instance, found to occur in this data in the form of transfer. The following extracts show cases of transfer from speakers’ L1. The extracts are taken from the Hamburg ELF conversational data.Footnote 1

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    In the Hamburg data there is a high incidence of speakers’ deliberate accommodation to other participants’ ELF competence via the use of a certain gambit, which Edmondson (1981) called a “Represent”. A Represent is a meta-communicative procedure and a useful and versatile discourse marker with which a speaker re-presents (parts of) a previous speak...

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    In the face of manifold cultural and linguistic differences, ELF users demonstrate their solidarity with each other by co-constructing utterances whenever necessary – a clear sign of a feeling of group identity that develops in the community of practice in which ELF speakers find themselves. One might say that ELF users view ELF as an egalitarian t...

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    • Juliane House
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    • 2018

  5. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsThe Pragmatics of English as a Lingua Franca: Research and ...

    Oct 3, 2018 · Culture and language in intercultural communication, English as a lingua franca and English language teaching: Points of convergence and conflict. In Holmes, P. & Dervin, F. (Eds.), The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a lingua franca (pp. 70 – 89). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.Google Scholar

  6. www.degruyter.com › journal › keyJournal of English as a Lingua Franca - De Gruyter

    Mar 15, 2012 · The Journal of English as a Lingua Franca ( JELF ) is the first journal to be devoted to the rapidly-growing phenomenon of English as a Lingua Franca. The articles and other features explore this global phenomenon from a wide number of perspectives, including linguistic, sociolinguistic, socio-psychological, and political, in a diverse range of settings where English is the common language of ...

  7. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsA comprehensive overview of English as a lingua franca ...

    A comprehensive overview of English as a lingua franca research - Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker & Martin Dewey, The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca. London & New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xix + 620. Hardback £165/$240, ISBN 978-1-13885-532-8. - Volume 35 Issue 4

  8. link.springer.com › content › pdfEnglish as a Lingua Franca and Multilingualism - Springer

    Over the last century, English has been developing into the first truly global lingua franca. A lingua franca is most generally defined as a medium of communication among people who do not share a first language. This means that lingua franca interactions happen, by definition, in multilingual settings: they are bi- or multilin-