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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Business English as a lingua franca in international virtual collaboration

open access: yes
BUSINESS ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL COLLABORATION Business English as a lingua franca in international virtual collaboration ...
Komori-Glatz, Miya   +2 more
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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
wiley   +1 more source

Lingua Franca

open access: yes, 1999
2. Introduction 3. English Only 4. Convertible Currencies 5. Lingua Franca 6. Discussion 7. References Abstract This paper examines a set of three patterns that examine the issues that arise when data are to be shared among several applications in one ...
Don Roberts, English Only, Brian Foote
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The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

Lingua franca

open access: yes, 2012
On parle souvent de lingua franca pour désigner un langage permettant la communication entre locuteurs de langues différentes. Le latin a longtemps joué ce rôle pour la communication scientifique et aujourd’hui on le dit de l’anglais.
Philippe Cibois
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