31.2077, Books: English as a Lingua Franca: Kecskes

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:38:03
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: English as a Lingua Franca: Kecskes

 


Title: English as a Lingua Franca 
Subtitle: The Pragmatic Perspective 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/english-lingua-franca-pragmatic-perspective?format=HB 


Author: Istvan Kecskes

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108776189 Pages: 212 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107103801 Pages: 212 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107103801 Pages: 212 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use of English
as a common language for communication between speakers whose first language
is not English. Providing a unique and original perspective on this subject,
Istvan Kecskes explains the language behaviour of ELF speakers, through the
lens of Gricean pragmatics. This study successfully brings together the main
viewpoints of the Gricean paradigm into ELF research, to discuss and better
understand the nature of ELF interactions, as well as explaining how Gricean
pragmatics can benefit from investigating and analysing ELF. Each chapter
presents intriguing ideas that put existing knowledge into a new perspective,
such as interactional competence, intention, implicatures, the
semantics-pragmatics interface, and modality. New terms and viewpoints such as
language use mode, deliberate creativity, temporary extension of the system,
emergent common ground and modality continuum are introduced into the ELF
debate.

Introduction
1. The nature of English as a Lingua Franca
2. Linguistic creativity in ELF
3. Interactional competence
4. Sociocultural background knowledge
5. Speaker's intention
6. The semantics-pragmatics interface
7. Implicatures
8. Modality
9. Dialogic sequences and odd structures
Epilogue.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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