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Feb 26, 2024 · 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...
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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May 2, 2021 · Abstract. The article presents an overview of modern research devoted to the study of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF); The relevance of the paper is due to the increasing tendency for cooperation in the spheres of diplomacy, business and education that necessitates the agents of global communication to use a universal tool for mutual comprehension.
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.
Oct 17, 2022 · Abstract. Within higher education, internationalisation is increasingly important for students and academics alike. In this context, English as the lingua franca has gained prominence. The ostensible ubiquity of English rests on a particular rendering of the language as unitary, fixed, and undifferentiated.
Sep 13, 2012 · The opening chapter, titled ‘What is this thing called English’, argues that the emergence of English as global lingua franca, defined here as the use of English among speakers of different first languages, calls for a reconceptualization of English as a resource appropriated by bilingual users on their own terms and adapted to their own ...
- Gibson Ferguson
- 2012
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 ...
