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  1. 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-

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  3. 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.

  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
    • jhouse@fastmail.fm
    • 2018

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  6. link.springer.com › referenceworkentry › 10English as a Lingua Franca and Multilingualism | SpringerLink

    May 20, 2017 · This chapter explores the relationship between two modes of international communication: the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and multilingualism. ELF provides a means of communication among those who share no other language and is used by people in all parts...

    • Barbara Seidlhofer
    • barbara.seidlhofer@univie.ac.at

  7. www.researchgate.net › publication › 324266084(PDF) English as a lingua franca: Facts, benefits and costs

    Apr 6, 2018 · The paper first tries to identify the areas of life where English already serves as a lingua franca in the world and those where the language faces sharp competition.

    • Jacques Melitz

  8. 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.

  9. academic.oup.com › applij › articleBarbara Seidlhofer: Understanding English as a Lingua Franca ...

    Sep 13, 2012 · The opening chapter, titled ‘What is this thing called English’, argues that the emergence of English as global lingua franca, defined here as the use of English among speakers of different first languages, calls for a reconceptualization of English as a resource appropriated by bilingual users on their own terms and adapted to their own ...