Jenkins, Jennifer (2022) Accommodation in ELF: Where from? Where now? Where next? In, Walkinshaw, Ian (ed.) The Pragmatics of English as a Lingua Franca: Findings and developments. Berlin. De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 17-34. (doi:10.1515/9781501512520-002).
Abstract
Over the past decade or so, it has become commonplace for accommodation to feature prominently in descriptions of the use of ELF. My own interest in accommodation, however, stretches all the way back to my days as a doctoral student in the early 1990s. My PhD research explored variation in the use of English among speakers from different first languages, or users of EIL (English as an International Language), as I called them at the time. This was because the term English as a Lingua Franca, or ELF, didn’t exist when I was conducting my PhD research, so I borrowed EIL from the field of World Englishes, which had – and still has – much in common ideologically with my own thinking about lingua franca communication. And even though I coined the term ELF (Jenkins 1996) soon after completing my PhD, when I gave talks on the subject throughout the second half of the 1990s, for obvious reasons the term seemed to amuse my audiences. Because of this, I continued with ‘EIL’ in both my talks and publications until the early 2000s, when ‘ELF’ was taken up by other scholars and gradually lost its funny connotations
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