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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 ...
- Juliane House
- jhouse@fastmail.fm
- 2018
Mar 22, 2022 · Pakistan, one of the eight countries comprising South Asia, has more than 212.2 million people, making it the world’s fifth most populous country after China, India, USA, and Indonesia. It has also the world’s second-largest Muslim population. Eberhard et al. (Ethnologue: languages of the world, SIL International, 2020) report 77 languages used by people in Pakistan, although the only two ...
- Hina Ashraf
- hina.ashraf@georgetown.edu
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
- 2014
Taking a look at the predecessors of English as a lingua franca (ELF), we will begin to explore and have an idea of how such a change comes about in the first place. And, more specifically, how we eventually got to English. Leading up to English: Lingua Francas of the Past Aramaic. Aramaic was the unifying language in the Persian Empire.
Feb 26, 2024 · Abstract. 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 ...
Nov 25, 2016 · In order to better contextualize the discussion in this chapter, a brief outline of the role of English globally is needed. For better or worse, English is currently the predominant global lingua franca, with an estimated 2 billion L2 users of the language (Crystal 2008) alongside the over 300 million L1 or mother tongue users (www.ethnologue.com).
e. English as a lingua franca ( ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" [1] [2] and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option". [3] [4] ELF is "defined functionally by ...
