Yahoo Web Search

Sign In

Search results

  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. www.nytimes.com › 2022/01/18 › booksHow the English Language Conquered the World

    Jan 18, 2022 · English accounts for 60 percent of world internet content and is the lingua franca of pop culture and the global economy. All 100 of the world’s most influential science journals publish in English.

  3. People also ask

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Videos

    View all

  7. 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

    See full list on link.springer.com

    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...

    See full list on link.springer.com

    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...

    See full list on link.springer.com

    • Juliane House
    • jhouse@fastmail.fm
    • 2018

  8. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleThe Phenomenon of Linguistic Globalization: English as the ...

    Oct 28, 2014 · The nature of English as the Global Lingua Franca The notion of “English as the Global Language†reflects a completely new phenomenon, even though many researchers of the use of the English language for international communication had undertaken a series of research studies of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) as distinct from research ...

  9. 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...