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English as a lingua franca used at international meetings [PDF]
The paper deals with the use of English as a lingua franca. It concentrates on the environment of international meetings where English is used as a lingua franca. The aim of the research conducted through a survey of members of a NATO working group is to
Barančicová Jana, Zerzová Jana
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Japanese universities have lately begun to teach academic content in Englishinstead of Japanese. In this article, I examine curricular and ideological issuesrelated to having English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at a Japanese universitybefore ...
Glenn Toh
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«Em razão das conquistas, religião, commercio»
This article explores the relationships between the concepts of lingua franca and «tapuya» (those who do not speak the lingua franca) in Jesuit writings from the State of Maranhão and Grão Pará in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the articles of ...
Cândida Barros
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DisCoPy: Monoidal Categories in Python [PDF]
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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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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Turkish EFL Students' Perceptions of ELF and its Pedagogical Implications
English has established itself as a lingua franca for people from a variety of linguistic and cultural origins in today's more globalized world. As a result, English's current position is likely to have an effect on both EFL students' perceptions of the ...
Fikri Geckinli, Cevdet Yılmaz
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Lingua franca y lengua de moros
El problema principal en el estudio del histórico pidgin mediterráneo conocido como lingua franca es el escaso número de testimonios documentales. Entre estos se ha venido citando la jerga de moros del teatro clásico español. El propósito de este trabajo
Bruno Camus Bergareche
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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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Aramaic as Lingua Franca [PDF]
This chapter discusses various linguistic aspects of the rise and use of Aramaic as the lingua franca of three successive Near Eastern empires – the Neo-Assyrian, the Neo-Babylonian, and the Achaemenid (also "Persian") empires. In striving to extend their territories, the administrations of the empires incorporated regions with other spoken and written
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Imperfect Match: PDDL 2.1 and Real Applications [PDF]
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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