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Pragmatic manipulation of metapragmatic expressions in BELF meetings

Applied Pragmatics, 2022
This article explores the function of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) as pragmatic manipulation during Business English as a lingua franca (BELF) meetings within the framework of the socio-cognitive approach (SCA), with special attention to how MPEs in
Ping Liu, Huiying Liu
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‘It’s a matter of personal attitudes rather than speakers’ nativeness’: Korean professionals’ perceptions of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) communication

Language and Intercultural Communication
Kanghee Lee
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A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF BUSINESS ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA (BELF) AND ITS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS TO CHINA'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

The EUrASEANs: journal on global socio-economic dynamics
This study presents a novel approach by integrating various theoretical frameworks of Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) and their pedagogical implications for China's educational system.
Na Shi, M. F. Deocampo
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Competing for the floor towards a common goal: a focus on the functions of adversative markers in simultaneous sequences in BELF encounters

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca
It is well established in Conversation Analysis (CA) that overlapping sequences are a common occurrence in spoken interactions. These often occur near Transition Relevance Places (TRP) in turn-taking management but are used also for cooperative and non-
Valeria Franceschi
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Communication Strategies in BELF: Implications for Business English Language Teaching

, 2020
Research has shown that Communication Strategies are one of the main tools employed by ELF users to reach common understanding and effectiveness in communication, with participants cooperatively and jointly constructing meaning through several pragmatic ...
Paola Vettorel
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Communication strategies in BELF e-mailing: ‘Only’ a matter of shared understanding?

, 2020
Research in BELF (English as a Business Lingua Franca) has increasingly focused on pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects of business communication (Kecskes 2019). In particular, a number of studies has explored the employment of Communication Strategies (
P. Caleffi
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Communication strategies in BELF: From users’ perception, corpus and textbook analysis to pedagogical implications

, 2020
English as Business Lingua Franca (BELF) has become an important domain of study within ELF research, where strategic competence, in addition to business know-how and multicultural awareness (Louhiala-Salminen, Kankaanranta 2011), is extremely important ...
Paola Vettorel, Valeria Franceschi
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Culture, curriculum design, syllabus and course development in the light of BELF

, 2015
Patricia Pullin
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Achieving Mutual Understanding in the Global Workplace: A Questionnaire-based Survey of BELF Users’ Perceptions and Practices

, 2020
Maintaining mutual understanding is one of the pillars of ELF communication, and even more so in the business context, where high-stakes interactions often take place. In order to achieve their communicative goals in and outside the professional context,
Valeria Franceschi
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The shifting perception of Japanese BELF users towards English: a case study

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2019
This paper examines attitudes of Japanese business people towards English by interviewing Japanese construction company employees working on international projects in Asian countries, where English is used as a lingua franca (ELF).
Akiko Otsu
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