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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. It scrutinizes English’s role in...
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.
In the context of ELF where English is used as a medium of communication among nonnative speakers as well as between native and nonnative speakers, researchers need to examine pragmatic competence based on how L2 learners can navigate communicative demands by using communication strategies skillfully while negotiating their identities.
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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
- 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...
- Juliane House
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- 2018
Nov 11, 2013 · Speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF) represent the largest contemporary group of English users around the world. Much empirical research into the phenomenon of ELF over the past 10 years or so has focused on identifying the linguistic regularities of their English in diverse contexts of use.
Sep 13, 2012 · Here, Seidlhofer draws a distinction between English as a foreign language (EFL), where there remains a normative orientation toward the standard English norms associated with British or American users, and ELF, where these norms are less applicable, even irrelevant.
