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Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF
English for Specific Purposes, 2023 Inspired by English as a Lingua Franca approach in linguistics, Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005) introduced the notion of BELF (then called Business English Lingua Franca) in their article on internal communication between Finns and Swedes in two Nordic corporate mergers.
Anne Kankaanranta
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A Review of Pragmatic Competence in BELF Interactions
International Journal of English Linguistics, 2021 Globalization has transformed English from a foreign language into a lingua franca. The pragmatic paradigm and pragmatic features of English as a lingua franca (ELF), are different from those of native English, especially in the business context, defined as English as a business lingua franca (BELF), which has contributed to a series of studies on ...
Jialiang Chen
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Developing shared communication practices: A study of BELF in multinational team meetings [PDF]
Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2020 Abstract A growing number of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) adopt English as their official corporate language. Research on English used as a business lingua franca (BELF) in such contexts shows how its use is negotiated, context dependent, and influenced by cultural and linguistic diversity.
Tone Holt Nielsen
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Hermes, 2019 English is now the corporate language of many multinational corporations (MNCs) worldwide. However, when English is used as a shared language resource, a lingua franca, its use may be both fluid and local, and the characteristics of its local use should
Tone Holt Nielsen
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Request Strategies in BELF Emails
International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature, 2022 : Email is one of the common means of communication in international business nowadays, and it plays an important role in information exchange, cooperation promotion and rapport management.
WU Ji-hong
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BELF Courses and Iranian Learners’ Perception Regarding Success in Business Communication [PDF]
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020 The present qualitative study aimed to investigate the role of Business English as Lingua Franca (BELF) courses in learners’ success in communication in an Iranian company. In doing so, 25 adult BELF learners were selected from an automotive parts manufacturing company in Tehran, Iran. They were the employees of a company consisting of men and women in
Mojgan Rashtchi, Rahim Joze Ramezani
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Reconceptualising English for International Business Contexts: A BELF approach and its educational implications (a review) [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2023 Barry Tomalin
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“What language does global business speak?” – The concept and development of BELF [PDF]
Ibérica, 2013 This paper focuses on the development of the concept of BELF, which originally stood for “Business English as Lingua Franca”, but later we have used the abbreviation to refer to “English as Business Lingua Franca”.
Anne Kankaanranta +1 more
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The development, validation, and in vivo testing of a high-precision bronchial epithelial lining fluid sampling device [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 IntroductionAnalysis of respiratory biomarkers or pharmaceutical drug concentrations in bronchial epithelial lining fluid (bELF) using a high-precision sampling method is crucial for effective clinical respiratory diagnostics and research.
Akash Gupta +10 more
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Building Rapport in BELF Communication: Solidarity Strategies in Business Emails
, 2020 In the globalized market, business professionals use emails to communicate with customers, suppliers, and even colleagues who may be based in any part of the world, employing English as a business lingua franca (BELF). Despite the goal-oriented nature of business communication, rapport is “an essential element in the building and maintenance of strong ...
Paola-Maria Caleffi
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