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May 1, 2010 · In this provocative and compelling new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum, coauthor of the best-selling book and television series The Story of English, shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world’s lingua franca. In fascinating detail he describes the ever-accelerating changes wrought on the language ...
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Jan 18, 2022 · English accounts for 60 percent of world internet content and is the lingua franca of pop culture and the global economy. All 100 of the world’s most influential science journals publish in English.
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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 ...
The 1919 Treaty of Versailles, at the conclusion of WWI, was written in English, as well as French. Use of English surged with the WWII victory by English-speaking nations and the subsequent formation of the UN. With Europe in ruins after WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union became the contending global superpowers.
Apr 22, 2020 · ELF Handbooks, Book Series, and Journal. As the Introduction makes clear, the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF) is in its infancy, with most work on the subject having taken place over the past twenty years. This being so, there are relatively few resources currently available: just one journal, one book series, and two handbooks.
This series welcomes book proposals detailing innovative and cutting edge research and theorisation in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF), in essence, English as the chosen medium of communication among people from different first languages. The unprecedented use of English as an international lingua franca, largely because of its relationship with the processes of globalisation ...
Of all the themes covered in this book, English as a Lingua Franca, or ELF, has seen the most dramatic developments in the years following the writing of its first and second editions. For over the past decade or so, there has been an increasing amount of research into ELF, the establishment of an international ELF conference series held in ...
