New perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca /
This volume complements earlier work on English as a lingua franca (ELF) by providing an in-depth study of the phenomenon from a decidedly European perspective. Distancing itself from more traditional approaches to the study of English in Europe (linguistic imperialism and "Euro-English"),...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2013]
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- New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Country codes and other abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Differing views on the status of English in Europe
- 2.1 English in Europe and linguistic imperialism
- 2.2 Europe and the World Englishes paradigm: Euro-English as a linguistic variety?
- 2.3 English as a European lingua franca
- 2.4 "English" in the postmodern age
- 2.5 New perspectives on English as a European lingua franca
- 3. Methodological framework
- 3.1 Studying ELF as community-based practice
- 3.2 Corpus compilation: ESC-PC
- 4. Code choice practices and European ELF talk
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 English and European multilingualism
- 4.3 Code choice at the macro-level
- 4.4 Micro-switching in ELF talk
- 4.4.1 Asking for assistance
- 4.4.2 Creating the Eurovision experience
- 4.4.3 Greetings
- 4.5 Conclusions: The embedding of ELF in European speakers' multilingual repertoires
- 5. Metalinguistic comments on the use of English
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Metalanguage
- 5.3 Comments on code choice at ESC press conferences
- 5.4 Comments on English proficiency
- 5.5 Comments on non-native English accents
- 5.6 Conclusions: ELF norms superseding traditional ELT norms
- 6. Compliments in European ELF talk
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Compliments in Western Anglophone cultures: Form and function
- 6.3 The sociolinguistic dimension of compliments
- 6.4 Methodological preliminaries
- 6.5 Frequency of compliments
- 6.6 Structural aspects of compliments in ESC-PC
- 6.7 Functional aspects of compliments in ESC-PC
- 6.8 Compliments, gender and sexuality in ESC-PC
- 6.9 Conclusions: Pragmatic negotiation and identity construction via ELF
- 7. Relativisation patterns in European ELF talk
- 7.1 Introduction.
- 7.2 The structural description of ELF
- 7.3 Relativisation in English: Usage patterns, processing, language typology
- 7.4 Methodological preliminaries
- 7.5 Relativisers and syntactic function
- 7.6 Relativisers and humanness of antecedent
- 7.7 Relativisers and L1 background
- 7.8 Relativisers and active speaker participation
- 7.9 Relativisers and European region
- 7.10 Relativisers and EU status
- 7.11 Multivariate analysis
- 7.12 Conclusions: The formal hybridity of European ELF
- 8. Synthesis
- 8.1 Conceptualising ELF
- 8.2 ELF and Europeanness
- 8.3 Implications for European language policies
- 9. Appendix
- 9.1 Transcription Conventions: ESC Press Conferences Corpus [ESC-PC]
- 9.2 List of Press Conferences in ESC-PC
- References
- Index.