New perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca /

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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"),...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Motschenbacher, Heiko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Temas:
English language > Study and teaching > Europe.
English language > Europe.
English language > Influence on foreign languages.
Lingua francas > Europe.
Languages in contact.
Anglais (Langue) > Étude et enseignement > Europe.
Anglais (Langue) > Europe.
Anglais (Langue) > Influence sur les autres langues.
Langues en contact.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
English language.
English language > Study and teaching.
Lingua francas.
Europe.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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