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Oct 17, 2022 · However, the unique role of English as a global lingua franca (Fang & Baker, 2018; Jenkins & Mauranen, 2019) is evident in higher education internationalisation and student mobility. As English has spread globally, it has become clear that it is no longer “the sole property” (Fang & Baker, 2018; p. 608) of its ‘native' speakers.
Feb 26, 2024 · Abstract. This paper explores the ascent of English as a global lingua franca within the context of linguistic hegemony, following Phillipson’s 1992 framework. It scrutinizes English’s role in ...
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Nov 21, 2022 · English as a lingua franca and interculturality. With a tradition dating more than 20 years back, a ‘rapidly increasing interest’ (Kecskes, Citation 2019, p. 5) can be identified in relation to English as a lingua franca (henceforth, ELF) defined as uses of English by interlocutors who do not share an L1.
- 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
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...
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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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
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
Nov 21, 2019 · However, we have witnessed further globalisation and the entrenchment of English as a global language used by speakers from diverse lingua-cultural backgrounds. The needs of English language learners have changed; for many today, real and authentic use of English is as a lingua franca with speakers from diverse lingua-cultural backgrounds.
