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  2. www.nature.com › articles › s41599/024/02821-zEnglish language hegemony: retrospect and prospect - Nature

    Feb 26, 2024 · The ascendancy of English as a global lingua franca is a phenomenon intricately woven into the fabric of British colonial history. Its roots can be traced to the 16th century when British ...

  3. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullEnglish as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating ...

    Nov 21, 2022 · While undoing the ties between English as a non-native language and communication breakdown was an important step for establishing ELF’s legitimacy, as time went by and research in the field developed, it became clear that English as a lingua franca can be attached to a struggle with communication, the imposition of world views, and even ...

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

    Jan 1, 2016 · This means that lingua franca interactions happen, by definition, in multilingual settings: they are bi- or multilingual encounters because they bring into contact and mediate between the linguacultures of two or more speakers. This is as true of English as a lingua franca (henceforth ELF) as it is of lingua francas of earlier periods of human ...

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  5. 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 ...

    • Vladimir M. Smokotin, Anna S. Alekseyenko, Galina I. Petrova
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  6. 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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  8. link.springer.com › chapter › 10The Impact of English as a Global Lingua Franca on ... - Springer

    Apr 11, 2018 · Abstract. This chapter first examines the concept “lingua franca”, moving from an historical overview to the present status of English as a lingua franca (ELF). 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 ...

  9. 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. - Volume 35 Issue 4