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Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: Corpus-driven investigation

Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: Corpus-driven investigation
Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: Corpus-driven investigation
There have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. English is now undoubtedly(and particularly) an international lingua franca, a lingua mundi. The sociolinguistic reality of English language use worldwide, and its implications, continue to be hotly contested. Plenty of research has questioned, for example, the ownership of English, but less attention has been paid to the linguistic consequences of the escalating role English plays.

This is one of the first books to provide a detailed and comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Dewey and Cogo analyze and interpret their own large corpus of naturally occurring spoken interactions and focus on identifying innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers engaged in ELF talk.

Dewey and Cogo's work makes a substantial contribution to the emerging field of empirical ELF studies. As well as this practical focus, this book looks at both pragmatic and lexicogrammatical issues and highlights their interrelationship. In showcasing the underlying processes involved in the emergence of innovative patterns of language use, this book will be of great interest to advanced students and academics working in applied linguistics, ELF, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.
9781441158376
Continuum
Cogo, Alessia
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Dewey, Martin
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Cogo, Alessia
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Dewey, Martin
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Cogo, Alessia and Dewey, Martin (2012) Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: Corpus-driven investigation , London, GB. Continuum, 256pp.

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There have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. English is now undoubtedly(and particularly) an international lingua franca, a lingua mundi. The sociolinguistic reality of English language use worldwide, and its implications, continue to be hotly contested. Plenty of research has questioned, for example, the ownership of English, but less attention has been paid to the linguistic consequences of the escalating role English plays.

This is one of the first books to provide a detailed and comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Dewey and Cogo analyze and interpret their own large corpus of naturally occurring spoken interactions and focus on identifying innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers engaged in ELF talk.

Dewey and Cogo's work makes a substantial contribution to the emerging field of empirical ELF studies. As well as this practical focus, this book looks at both pragmatic and lexicogrammatical issues and highlights their interrelationship. In showcasing the underlying processes involved in the emergence of innovative patterns of language use, this book will be of great interest to advanced students and academics working in applied linguistics, ELF, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.

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Published date: 31 May 2012
Organisations: Modern Languages

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Local EPrints ID: 191055
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/191055
ISBN: 9781441158376
PURE UUID: fb5ba3b7-fe72-4338-bfc2-69a26d25af7d

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Date deposited: 16 Jun 2011 10:36
Last modified: 10 Dec 2021 19:25

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Author: Alessia Cogo
Author: Martin Dewey

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