Analysing English as a lingua franca : a corpus-driven investigation /

Analysing English as a lingua franca : a corpus-driven investigation /

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Author / Creator:Cogo, Alessia, author.
Imprint:London ; New York, NY : Continuum International Publishing Group., [2012]
Description:1 online resource (217 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries.
English language -- Variation -- English-speaking countries.
Intercultural communication.
English language -- Globalization.
Intercultural communication.
English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries.
English language -- Variation.
English language -- Foreign countries.
English language -- Globalization.
Lingua francas.
English-speaking countries.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149938
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Varying Form of Title:Analyzing English as a lingua franca
Other authors / contributors:Dewey, Martin, author.
ISBN:9781441154965
1441154965
9781441109415
1441109412
9781441137258
9781441158376
1280579218
9781280579219
1441137254
9781441137258
1441158375
9781441158376
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2019).
Summary:There 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 English as a lingua franca (ELF). Cogo and Dewey analyze and interpret their own large corpus of naturally occurring spoken interactions and focus on identifying innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers engaged in ELF talk. Cogo and Dewey's work makes a substantial contribution to the emerging field of empirical ELF studies. As well as this practical focus, this book looks at both pragmatic and lexicogrammatical issues and highlights their interrelationship. In showcasing the underlying processes involved in the emergence of innovative patterns of language use, this book will be of great interest to advanced students and academics working in applied linguistics, ELF, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.
Other form:Print version: Cogo, Alessia. Analysing English as a Lingua Franca : A Corpus-driven Investigation. London : Continuum International Publishing, ©2012 9781441158376
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. 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 2. Investigating lingua franca communication
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Intercultural communication and ELF
  • 2.3 Our approach to ELF communication
  • 2.4 Our corpora
  • 2.5 Summary : theoretical perspectives and methodological approach
  • Chapter 3. Patterns of innovation in ELF lexicogrammar
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Concluding remarks and matters arising
  • Chapter 4. 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 5. Achieving understanding in ELF : focus on pragmatics
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Initiating the negotiation
  • 5.3 Negotiation strategies
  • 5.4 Summary
  • Chapter 6. Supporting meaning : interactional pragmatics
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Backchannels
  • 6.3 Simultaneous talk
  • 6.4 Utterance completions
  • 6.5 Summary
  • Chapter 7. 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?

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