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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 the ...
It wasn’t until the dissolution of the USSR, and the end of the Cold War, that English would secure itself as the bona fide international lingua franca. The English Language Today English is unique in that it is the first truly global lingua franca.
Apr 11, 2018 · English as a lingua franca is today used in many domains across many different ethnic groups, nation states and regions, and it is steadily becoming more important as a default language in many parts of Asia. As a lingua franca, English is also the first truly global language in history.
- Juliane House
- jhouse@fastmail.fm
- 2018
Oct 28, 2014 · In this connection, it is appropriate to speak about English used in the function of a vehicular language to connect people with different language backgrounds as the global lingua franca (EGLF). The term “lingua franca†is usually used to refer to a language functioning as a means of interethnic communication.
- Vladimir M. Smokotin, Anna S. Alekseyenko, Galina I. Petrova
- 2014
Mar 22, 2022 · For one, despite its lingua franca status across Pakistan and North India, Urdu is the mother tongue of only about 8% of the total population (Pakistan, 2001). Second, Urdu does not have the same linguistic capital as English (Ashraf, 2008 ; Shamim & Rashid, 2019 ), but dominates English in some fields where it is ritualized, and where it ...
- Hina Ashraf
- hina.ashraf@georgetown.edu
English fulfills the need for a global lingua franca, as it has spread to large areas of the world due to various factors such as: Spread of the Latin script ; Colonisation, mainly by the British Empire , [a] thereby making English into the language with the most countries recognizing it as an official language ;
Nov 25, 2016 · The global spread of English as a lingua franca (ELF) can be viewed as providing an unprecedented opportunity for intercultural exchange. However, there have been concerns that the dominance of English may result in linguistic and cultural ‘imperialism’ by the Anglophone settings from which the language originates.
