English as a Lingua Franca: Perspectives and Prospects

English as a Lingua Franca: Perspectives and Prospects
Author: Marie-Luise Pitzl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501502999

In the past 15 years, English as a lingua franca (ELF) has evolved from a ‘niche topic’ of a relatively small group of specialists to a highly productive research area that now has a firm place on the map of linguistics. Looking back (as well as forward), this edited volume addresses perspectives and prospects of ELF in connection with other areas of linguistics. It is the first volume that brings together ELF scholars with experts from a wide range of areas in linguistics (such as corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language pedagogy, language policy, intercultural communication). Adopting an inter-/transdisciplinary approach, the book traces the impact that discussions about ELF have had – or may have – beyond the study of ELF as such: for the conceptualization, description, methodology, pedagogy and politics of ‘English’. As the book combines external perspectives on ELF, provided by well-known scholars in diverse fields, with a smaller number of internal perspectives provided by prominent ELF scholars, it will be of interest not only to students and researchers interested in ELF, but also to students and scholars in Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Intercultural Communication.

English as a Lingua Franca

English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Marie-Luise Pitzl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781501511226

This edited volume addresses perspectives and prospects of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in connection with other areas of linguistics. It is the first volume that brings together ELF scholars and experts from a wide range of areas in linguistics (such as corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language pedagogy, language policy, intercultural communication) in order to explore how ELF relates to these fields.

English as a Lingua Franca and Intercultural Communication

English as a Lingua Franca and Intercultural Communication
Author: Ignacio Guillén-Galve
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783034327633

The contributions collected in this book provide a wide range of perspectives on and prospects for the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), and explore various contexts where ELF is used predominantly: Academic and research settings as well as teacher and general population education, including pronunciation teaching. The chapters look at ELF data and concerns taking into consideration the areas of phonology, grammar, pragmatics alongside more specific, sociolinguistic ones such as attitudes and identity. The chapters also seek to invoke and provoke further discussion and research on the complex and multifarious forms of the «Englishes» that people are using around the world in their daily encounters in English. Accordingly, most of the studies described in the chapters orient their methodology and discussion to a particular macro- or micro-context of intercultural communication (IC), as the main scope of the exploratory work presented here is not so much the system of ELF, but the pragmatics of communication and its strategies. The specific interest of this volume thus lies in bridging the gap between two distinct areas of scholarship, ELF studies, on the one hand, and IC studies, on the other, and in doing so from a «semiperipherical» European perspective and from a view of ELF as social practice.

Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca

Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Yasemin Bayyurt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2015-02
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9783110335972

The aim of this edited volume is to examine how current theories and principles underlying English as a Lingua Franca studies contribute to research on present pedagogical practices in ELF contexts. The bookincludes selected papers from the Fifth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. It provides useful insights into pedagogical practices in different ELF contexts and knowledge on ELF pedagogy-policy relationship.

English as a Lingua Franca

English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Istvan Kecskes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107103800

Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across the fields of pragmatics, language contact, world Englishes, second language acquisition, and English as a second language.

World Englishes--problems, Properties and Prospects

World Englishes--problems, Properties and Prospects
Author: International Association for World Englishes. International Conference
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027249008

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English as a Lingua Franca in Migrants' Trauma Narratives

English as a Lingua Franca in Migrants' Trauma Narratives
Author: Maria Grazia Guido
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137583002

This book examines how trauma is experienced and narrated differently across languages and cultures, drawing on rich ethnographic case studies and a novel cognitive-linguistic approach to analyse the variations of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) used in the narratives of West-African migrants and refugees in the course of intercultural encounters with Italian experts from domain-specific fields of discourse (including legal, medical, religious and cultural professionals). It examines the ways in which such experts interpret the migrants’ trauma narratives by applying discourse conventions from within their communities of practice, as well as their own native linguacultural norms. It argues persuasively for the development of a ‘hybrid ELF mode’ of intercultural communication to be used by experts in charge of unequal encounters in specialized migration contexts that can accommodate different culture-bound categorizations of trauma. This timely and important work will appeal in particular to students and scholars of applied linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, intercultural communication, pragmalinguistics, migration studies and healthcare communication.

Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca

Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Marie-Luise Pitzl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-07-09
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1501510088

This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). Building on the findings of previous ELF research, the book proposes that creativity might serve as a fundamental concept in accounting for the variation that seems to be central to describing and understanding English as a lingua franca.

English as a Lingua Franca among Adolescents

English as a Lingua Franca among Adolescents
Author: Katharina Beuter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2023-07-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110786613

This volume is not only the first book-length investigation into adolescents’ use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it also explores ELF in an African-European context, which has received little attention in ELF research so far. The book examines the interplay between language, culture and identity in adolescents’ ELF interactions. It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to explore strategies secondary school students employ in a German-Tanzanian student exchange in order to reach their communicative goals. Introducing and drawing on the TeenELF corpus, the book investigates the speaker- and situation-specific potential of repetition and repair, complimenting, laughter and humour as well as various practices of translanguaging. The study reveals ELF as a transcultural space, in which different linguacultural influences meet and merge, while meaning, rapport and identity are interactionally negotiated. In the face of an increasing interest in ELF-informed pedagogy, the present approach investigates the communicative needs and competences of school students and derives both theoretical as well as classroom implications from its linguistic findings.

Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca

Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Ian Walkinshaw
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2022-01-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501512528

This volume addresses two current gaps in pragmatics research in English as a lingua franca (ELF): Firstly, the contexts, approaches and theories of pragmatics generally that remain under-explored in studies of ELF speakers; secondly, the paucity of ELF pragmatics studies investigating Asia, despite its economic and geo-political importance and the role of English as a region-wide lingua franca. The volume draws together a range of pragmatics-related chapters contributed by leading experts in pragmatics, both in English as a lingua franca and more broadly. These either present new research that extends the current state of the field, or introduce approaches and theories from other areas of pragmatics that translate readily to analysis of ELF interaction. Five of the chapters are Asia-focused, examining pragmatic aspects of communication among Asian ELF users. The volume therefore offers scope for ELF pragmatics researchers to further broaden the field’s theoretical and analytical horizons, and adds to the quantity of knowledge about pragmatics in ELF communication in Asia. Its publication raises the visibility of this research area within the broader field of pragmatics.