29.4443, Books: Contextualising English as a Lingua Franca: Martin-Rubió (ed.)

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Subject: Contextualising English as a Lingua Franca: Martin-Rubió (ed.)

 


Title: Contextualising English as a Lingua Franca 
Subtitle: From Data to Insights 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/contextualising-english-as-a-lingua-franca 


Editor: Xavier Martin-Rubió

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527508712 Pages: 287 Price: U.K. £ 61.99


Abstract:

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research has become central in current
debates in linguistics and is commonly referred to in conferences dealing with
other sub-fields of sociolinguistics. This volume collects ten papers that
testify to the great scope of ELF research currently being carried out through
the analysis of different kinds of data in a variety of contexts and domains.
The three chapters in the first part of the volume tackle computer-mediated
communication, a medium that currently accounts for a great proportion of
human communication. The four contributions in the second section differ with
regards to the domains under investigation, and all touch upon social issues
that have an impact on how language is used: from Vietnamese university
students negotiating their identities in the UK to a Pakistani migrant making
efforts to be understood by Italian officials. Finally, the three papers in
the final part are an example of the many ELF-oriented pedagogical initiatives
that have emerged in recent years across educational levels and all over the
world. The introduction to the volume also situates ELF research in its
current transition to a third phase in which more attention will be paid to
the multilingual nature of ELF users. The proposal put forward in the
introductory chapter holds that ELF has two well established fronts where more
quality work will surely be carried out, and that ELF could benefit from
establishing connections to other approaches to multilingualism and
languaging, but without forgetting what the E in the acronym stands for. This
collection of papers will be of interest to teachers and language
practitioners who are curious about the ELF paradigm; researchers in ELF and
in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics in general; internet linguists and
computer-medaited communication experts; educational policymakers; and
undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in areas such as
applied linguistics, English studies, multilingualism and plurilingualism, and
intercultural communication, amongst other fields.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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