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Feb 26, 2024 · For many non-native speakers, English is a lingua franca facilitating communication across diverse linguistic backgrounds, catalyzing scientific advancement, and enabling access to...
- 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
Apr 18, 2023 · 18 April 2023 - 16:54. Share this. For the foreseeable future, English will remain the dominant global 'lingua franca'. ©. British Council. English is one of the most spoken languages in the world, but what will English look like in the future?
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
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’...
- Will Baker
- 2017
Jan 18, 2022 · The justifications for English — or any language — as a global lingua franca are based primarily in economic efficiency.
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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 ;
