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May 29, 2019 · Sridhar Ramachandran. Indiana University Southeast. Date Written: March 31, 2019. Abstract. In this opinion article, we highlight that the cultural policy of language in India has resulted in an impasse in regard to determining and deciding upon a national language policy.
- Ishwarya N. Iyer, Sridhar Ramachandran
- 2019
Feb 26, 2024 · Published 26 February 2024. DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02821-z. This paper explores the ascent of English as a global lingua franca within the context of linguistic...
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- 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
- jhouse@fastmail.fm
- 2018
Oct 28, 2014 · English as the Global Lingua Franca (EGLF) has become a means of universal communication not only between the native speakers of English and speakers of English as the second language, but also between people with different native languages.
- Vladimir M. Smokotin, Anna S. Alekseyenko, Galina I. Petrova
- 2014
Jan 18, 2022 · The justifications for English — or any language — as a global lingua franca are based primarily in economic efficiency.
Mar 12, 2021 · Research on English as Lingua Franca (ELF) grows increasingly in the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics in last 20 years, whereas investigations on the pragmatic as...
May 2, 2021 · The study of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), that is the language used for communication between non-native speakers outside the borders of the countries where it has an official status as a national language, is acquiring undeniable significance for understanding its development trends.
