Language Change: The Impact of English as a Lingua FrancaAnna Mauranen, Svetlana Vetchinnikova English as a lingua franca (ELF) has become ubiquitous in today's globalised, mobile and fast-changing world. It is clear that it will have an unprecedented impact not only on how we communicate but also on our understanding of language use and change. What exactly ELF brings to our life and to language theory is a question which requires an interdisciplinary take. This book gathers together leading scholars from world Englishes, typology, language history, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, multilingualism, sociolinguistics and ELF research itself to seek state-of-the-art answers. Chapters present original insights on language change, based on theoretical approaches and empirical studies, and provide clear examples of social, interactional and cognitive changes that ELF instigates. The picture which unfolds on the pages of this book is complex, dynamic and makes a convincing case for the importance of English as a lingua franca on language change at a global scale. |
Contents
Pooling Perspectives | 11 |
215 1 2 Scurve shapes in the diffusion of dosupport in different page | 22 |
India vs others Fishers exact 1 4 Relationship between aid and assist in World Englishes highly | 32 |
English as a Lingua Franca in the Context of a Sociolinguistic | 44 |
How Writing Changes Language | 75 |
Reproduced from Biber 1995 p 289 | 85 |
ELF and Translation As Language Contact | 95 |
Whose Language Was It Anyway? terttu nevalainen | 123 |
Zooming in on | 175 |
for friends top and followers bottom 7 4 Friends and followers per Swedish and English ELF | 191 |
ELF and Language Change at the Individual Level | 205 |
Are Multilinguals the Better Academic ELF Users? Evidence | 234 |
The Role of CoTextual and Contextual Cues for Intelligibility | 267 |
Exploring the Pragmatics of ComputerMediated English | 291 |
Development of Shared Multilingual Resources in ELF Dyadic | 311 |
The Role of Translanguaging in ELF Advice Sessions | 336 |
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