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Author: Nicholas Ostler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0802717713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the rise and fall of English as the most widely spoken language in human history and discusses what language will overtake its dominance as English-speaking nations are challenged by the rising wealth of Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Author: Nicholas Ostler
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1846142164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of "Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin" presents an erudite and provocative examination of the rise and coming fall of English as the world's language. Illustrations. Maps.
Author: Natalie Operstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1316518310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.
Author: Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-07-26
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on research conducted among teachers, this text examines the role of standard language ideology in ELF attitude formation, critiques current SLA theories and ELT practices, highlights links between ELF accent attitudes and ELF identities, and includes proposals for making ELT pedagogy and testing more relevant.
Author: Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-23
Total Pages: 916
ISBN-13: 1317509196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the main theories, concepts, contexts and applications of this rapidly developing field of study. Including 47 state-of-the art chapters from leading international scholars, the handbook covers key concepts, regional spread, linguistic features and communication processes, domains and functions, ELF in academia, ELF and pedagogy and future trends. This handbook is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research of English as a lingua franca and world/global Englishes more broadly, within English language, applied linguistics, and education.
Author: Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1135235562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew argues that history is a theatre for the realization of lingua francas, offering a model that shows the present as derived from the past and as a bearer of future possibility, the understanding of which is rooted in the understanding of World Englishes and ELF. The book will engage with some of the current theoretical debates in WEs and includes, as a means of fleshing out the model, sociolinguistic case studies of Arabia, China Fujian, and Singapore.
Author: Luke Prodromou
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2008-01-06
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0826440134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomaticity in English as a native language, and its comparative role in English as a lingua franca. Through examining how idiomaticity enables first language learners to achieve a greater degree of fluency, the book explores why idiomatic language poses such a challenge for users of English as a lingua franca. The book puts forward a new definition of competence and fluency within the context of English as a lingua franca, concluding with an analysis of practical implications for the lingua franca classroom. This in-depth study of English language learning using corpus data will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and corpus linguistics and to teachers of English as an international lingua franca.
Author: William Thacker
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Published: 2016-05-16
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1785079751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA marketer learns the limitations of language in this “hilarious” and thought-provoking satire (Flux Magazine). Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a hospital in which no one will speak to him. The founder of Lingua Franca—a naming rights agency committed to renaming every UK town after a corporate sponsor—Miles is desperate to recount the story of his quest for linguistic supremacy to anyone who’ll listen. Confined to his bed in a deathly quiet ward, Miles seeks to find his colleagues and reunite with his true love. But in doing so, he must confront his most deeply held convictions and consider the question of what’s in a name in a world where the spoken word has been replaced with silence.
Author: Ian Mackenzie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1134503881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching. Challenging and incisive, this book analyses positive and negative accounts of English as a lingua franca, and its linguistic features, within the context of: native and World Englishes multilingualism and intercultural communication sociolinguistic issues including accent and identity classroom teaching and learning English as a Lingua Franca is a useful guide for teachers and trainee teachers, and will be essential reading for advanced students and linguists concerned with multilingualism, language contact, language learning, language change, and the place of English in the world today.
Author: Christiane Meierkord
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0521192285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe global spread of English has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide, leading to the creation of many new varieties of English. This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of these different varieties interact with one another.
