English as a linga franca : studies and findings /

English as a linga franca : studies and findings /

English as a lingua franca has become a hot topic in Applied Linguistics and English Studies. While it has been a subject of controversy for some time, linguistic observations on actual use have largely been missing out of the debate. This is now changing fast, and the study of English as a Lingua F...

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Other Authors: Mauranen, Anna, Ranta, Elina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Subjects:
English language > Variation > Foreign countries.
English language > Globalization.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction Anna Mauranen
  • (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)intelligible? ELF Speakers' Perceptions of Their Accents Jennifer Jenkins
  • Orientations in ELF Research: Form and Function Barbara Seidlhofer
  • English as a Lingua Franca: Heightened Variability and Theoretical Implications Martin Dewey
  • Syntactic Features in Spoken ELF
  • Learner Language or Spoken Grammar? Elina Ranta
  • Pre-Empting Problems of Understanding in English as a Lingua Franca Jagdish Kaur
  • English as a Lingua Franca in Multinational Corporations
  • Exploring Business Communities of Practice Susanne Ehrenreich
  • No Joke
  • This is Serious! Power, Solidarity and Humour in Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) Patricia Pullin Stark
  • Students on Exchange in Scandinavia: Motivation, Interaction, ELF Development Philip Shaw, Tim Caudery and Margrethe Petersen
  • Emic Evaluations and Interactive Processes in a Classroom Community of Practice Ute Smit
  • From Code to Discourse in Spoken ELF Beyza Björkman
  • Accommodating Difference in ELF Conversations: A Study of Pragmatic Strategies Alessia Cogo
  • Fluent Speakers
  • Fluent Interactions: On the Creation of (Co)-Fluency in English as a Lingua Franca Julia Hüttner
  • "We should not wake up any dogs": Idiom and Metaphor in ELF Marie-Luise Pitzl
  • "We don't take the right way. We just take the way that we think you will understand"
  • The Shifting Relationship between Correctness and Effectiveness in ELF Cornelia Hülmbauer
  • "She's mixing the two languages together"
  • Forms and Functions of Code-Switching in English as a Lingua Franca Theresa Klimpfinger
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.

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