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The Cultures of English as a Lingua Franca

TESOL Quarterly, 2009
The cultural dimension of foreign and second language use and teaching has risen in prominence since the 1980s. More recently there has been much interest in and debate concerning the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF). However, there has been little empirical investigation into what communication through ELF might mean for an understanding of the
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Conference interpreting and English as a lingua franca

2021
This chapter provides an overview of research into the implications the global spread of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has had for conference interpreting over the past decade, during which the subfield of ITELF (interpreting, translation and English as a lingua franca) has evolved.
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English as a Lingua Franca

2010
As was seen in Chapters 3 and 4, the WE paradigm is concerned with the ways in which English, the former imperial language, has been appropriated and reforged locally in different parts of the world, giving rise to a myriad of Englishes, all distinctive in form but equal in value and dignity.
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English as a Lingua Franca and Multilingualism

2015
This chapter explores the relationship between two modes of international communication: the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and multilingualism. ELF provides a means of communication among those who share no other language and is used by people in all parts of today’s globalized world as a resource in the conduct of their professional and ...
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World Englishes and/or English as a lingua franca

2015
Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics ; No Full ...
Kirkpatrick, Andy, McLellan, James
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Communicating in English as a lingua franca

EUROSLA Yearbook, 2002
This paper will first discuss the role of English as a lingua franca from historical and socio-political perspectives; it will then review some relevant findings of research into actual interactions conducted in English as a lingua franca (ELF), before describing a study of ELF interactions.
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Considerations on English as a Global Lingua Franca

Political Studies Review, 2013
Central to Philippe Van Parijs’ recent text, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, are claims that the emergence of English as a global lingua franca is (1) inevitable, (2) necessary for transnational justice and (3) to be accelerated. After first outlining the reasoning behind these claims, this article then goes on to argue that there are
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English as a lingua franca: Singapore

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2006
When people discuss English as a global lingua franca, the implication is not so much how widely used the language is but rather what form of English should be used. This paper describes the role and features of a variety of English used in Singapore as one example of the developing new varieties of English that are emerging.
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English as a Lingua Franca

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013
Marie-Luise Pitzl, Alessia Cogo
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