04376nam 2200673Ia 450 991081072750332120240516151701.01-280-57921-897866136089871-4411-5496-5(CKB)2670000000174150(EBL)894551(OCoLC)787843515(SSID)ssj0000631931(PQKBManifestationID)12204922(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631931(PQKBWorkID)10599482(PQKB)11154742(MiAaPQ)EBC894551(Au-PeEL)EBL894551(CaPaEBR)ebr10554606(CaONFJC)MIL360898(EXLCZ)99267000000017415020111114d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnalyzing English as a lingua franca[electronic resource] a corpus-driven investigation /Alessia Cogo and Martin Dewey1st ed.London ;New York Continuum International Pub. Group20121 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-3725-4 1-4411-5837-5 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; Introducing English as a lingua franca; ELF research to date; Introducing our work in ELF; Chapter One: Researching English in the world; 1.1 Clarifying our terms of reference; 1.2 Defining ELF; 1.3 A paradigm shift: the need for empirical data in ELF; 1.4 The 'international' spread of corpus linguistics to date; Chapter Two: Investigating lingua franca communication; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Intercultural communication and ELF; 2.3 Our approach to ELF communication; 2.4 Our corpora2.5 Summary: theoretical perspectives and methodological approachChapter Three: Patterns of innovation in ELF lexicogrammar; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Concluding remarks and matters arising; Chapter Four: Underlying motives and adaptive processes in ELF; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Exploiting redundancy; 4.3 Regularization; 4.4 Added prominence; 4.5 Accommodation; 4.6 Explicitness and clarity of proposition; 4.7 Summary; Chapter Five: Achieving understanding in ELF: focus on pragmatics; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Initiating the negotiation; 5.3 Negotiation strategies; 5.4 SummaryChapter Six: Supporting meaning: interactional pragmatics6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Backchannels; 6.3 Simultaneous talk; 6.4 Utterance completions; 6.5 Summary; Chapter Seven: The theoretical and practical implications of ELF; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A theoretical account of globalization: localization of global phenomena; 7.3 Re-evaluating the notion of speech community; 7.4 Reconceptualizing language and communication; 7.5 Communicative competence revisited; 7.6 Implications for current pedagogic models and practices; 7.7 Where do we go from here?; NOTES; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEXThere have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. English is now undoubtedly(and particularly) an international lingua franca, a lingua mundi. The sociolinguistic reality of English language use worldwide, and its implications, continue to be hotly contested. Plenty of research has questioned, for example, the ownership of English, but less attention has been paid to the linguistic consequences of the escalating role English plays.This is one of the first books to provide a detailed and comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of EngEnglish languageVariationForeign countriesEnglish languageVariationEnglish-speaking countriesIntercultural communicationEnglish languageGlobalizationEnglish languageVariationEnglish languageVariationIntercultural communication.English languageGlobalization.427Cogo Alessia1611101Dewey Martin1611102MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810727503321Analyzing English as a lingua franca3939151UNINA