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English as the Lingua Franca in Europe
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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MorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation [PDF]
In this paper, we describe MorisienMT, a dataset for benchmarking machine translation quality of Mauritian Creole. Mauritian Creole (Morisien) is the lingua franca of the Republic of Mauritius and is a French-based creole language. MorisienMT consists of a parallel corpus between English and Morisien, French and Morisien and a monolingual corpus for ...
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Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal, Vol 23 No 2 (2019): Pre-Fixing the Colonial: Theory and ...
Annarita Taronna, Laura Centonze
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English is the most used lingua franca and its permeation is mainly through education sector. This expansion is reflected through the display of English coexisting with other languages in education sites.
Yustika Wahyu Riani+3 more
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Are Englishes as lingua franca?
It is well-known that English is a global language. People around the world are not speaking a certain type of English but different varieties of English. With the increasingly awareness of this phenomenon, the word “Englishes” has been widely applied.
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Linguistic neighbourhoods: explaining cultural borders on Wikipedia through multilingual co-editing activity [PDF]
In this paper, we study the network of global interconnections between language communities, based on shared co-editing interests of Wikipedia editors, and show that although English is discussed as a potential lingua franca of the digital space, its domination disappears in the network of co-editing similarities, and instead local connections come to ...
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This study aims to examine whether a crosslinguistic influence (CLI) is exerted on the referring expressions of the spoken narratives of Japanese–English bilingual children in different discourse contexts.
Satomi Mishina-Mori+3 more
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ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PEDAGOGY AND ASSESSMENT
The English language functions as a global language that facilitates communication among people of different lingua-cultures. This background leads to the question of whether the traditional language assessment still fulfils the needs of the majority of
Fan (Gabriel) Fang
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English as a Lingua Franca: Improving Technical Writing and Communication Methods for International Audiences [PDF]
This thesis centers on the role of English as a lingua franca in global communication, particularly as it pertains to technical written communication. Over the 20th century, English emerged as the primary language used in global communication.
Serrani, Lauren Alyssa
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Negotiation as the way of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication: trames of reference and interculturality [PDF]
The paper argues that Negotiation (capitalised to differentiate from negotiation as an activity type such as business negotiation) is the most important means of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication.
Zhu, Hua
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