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Polite impoliteness? How power, gender and language background shape request strategies in English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) in corporate email exchanges

open access: yesJournal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2022
International business is increasingly conducted through the medium of English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF). Yet, little is known about interactional strategies in BELF, specifically in internal written business communications.
J. Hofweber, S. Jaworska
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The perceptions of translanguaging through English as a lingua franca among international students in Korean higher education

open access: yesJournal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2021
This article explores how translanguaging is perceived by a group of international students at a Korean university where not only different first languages (L1) and English (L2) are involved in the students’ daily lives but also the local language (L3 ...
J. Ra
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Interpreting successful lingua-franca interaction. An analysis of non-native-/non-native small talk conversation in English

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2000
In the last few decades, English has become the most widely spread global lingua franca. Being used as a means of communication by non-native speakers of different linguistic and cultural background, norms for the use of lingua franca English cannot be ...
Christiane Meierkord
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DisCoPy: Monoidal Categories in Python [PDF]

open access: yesEPTCS 333, 2021, pp. 183-197, 2020
We introduce DisCoPy, an open source toolbox for computing with monoidal categories. The library provides an intuitive syntax for defining string diagrams and monoidal functors. Its modularity allows the efficient implementation of computational experiments in the various applications of category theory where diagrams have become a lingua franca. As an
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Imperfect Match: PDDL 2.1 and Real Applications [PDF]

open access: yesJournal Of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 20, pages 133-137, 2003, 2011
PDDL was originally conceived and constructed as a lingua franca for the International Planning Competition. PDDL2.1 embodies a set of extensions intended to support the expression of something closer to real planning problems. This objective has only been partially achieved, due in large part to a deliberate focus on not moving too far from classical ...
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English as a Lingua Franca

open access: yesTeanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2023
The discourse on English as a lingua franca (ELF) has impacted the way that English language teaching (ELT) is conceptualised, yet arguably little has changed in how English as an additional or second language (EAL/ESL) and English as a foreign language
Lacie Raymond
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Towards a (Painful?) Paradigm Shift: Language Teachers and the Notion of ‘Error’

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2017
This paper examines the relationship between language teachers and the errors made by their students. Traditionally, errors reflect a deviation from a standard, which is a described or imagined standard form of linguistic behavior, and teachers are the ...
David Newbold
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English language teachers’ perceptions of world Englishes and English as a lingua franca

open access: yesLiteracy Trek, 2021
English language has already become a world language while the world is changing and globalizing. It has been universally accepted in the academic field that English is now used as a lingua franca (ELF) in intercultural communication, and the lingua ...
Özdenur Ardıç Kıyak
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English as the Lingua Franca in Europe

open access: yesDiscourse, 2022
Introduction. Throughout several decades, English has been strengthening its position as lingua franca in international communication. The relevance of the given study is justified by the examination of the English language from the perspective of contact variantology and in the context of gradually emerging new version of English – Euro-English.
G. A. Demin, L. A. Ulianitckaia
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A study of Taiwanese university students’ English use, learning goals and attitudes toward English as a lingua franca

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This study investigates Taiwanese university students’ experience of English use, aims of learning English and attitudes toward English as a lingua franca (ELF). The notion of ELF has been researched in the field of English language teaching.
Wen-Hsing Luo
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