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May 29, 2019 · English as a Lingua Franca in a Multilingual India Journal of Language and Education, 5(1), 103-109. doi: 10.17323/2411-7390-2019-5-1-103-109 7 Pages Posted: 29 May 2019
- Ishwarya N. Iyer, Sridhar Ramachandran
- 2019
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 ...
Jan 26, 2019 · English, being the first world language, is said to be the first global lingua franca and it is the most widely used language in the world in international trade, diplomacy, mass entertainment ...
- 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
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
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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).
Nov 21, 2022 · English as a lingua franca and interculturality. With a tradition dating more than 20 years back, a ‘rapidly increasing interest’ (Kecskes, Citation 2019, p. 5) can be identified in relation to English as a lingua franca (henceforth, ELF) defined as uses of English by interlocutors who do not share an L1.
