1st Edition

Communicating Strategically in English as a Lingua Franca A Corpus Driven Investigation

By Janin Jafari Copyright 2021
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

There have been noticeable demographic changes recently in the use of English around the world. English as a medium of communication is now the contact language of native speakers from many diverse speech communities who interact with each other in multilingual contexts. The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and its implications has become a hot topic in applied linguistics and English... Read more

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Chapter 1 The spread of English in a global world

Chapter 2 English as a global language

Chapter 3 The usage of communication strategies

Chapter 4 Investigating ELF interaction

Chapter 5 Identifying and categorizing communication strategies in ELF

Chapter 6 Achieving mutual understanding in ELF: focus on communication strategies

Chapter 7 Affecting the choice of CSs: a focus on contextual factors

Chapter 8 The theoretical and practical implications of ELF

Chapter 9 Concluding remarks

References

Index

Biography

Janin Jafari holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Monash University, Australia. She has held different roles within the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, and she teaches Intercultural Communication at Monash University and ELICOS and ALSU courses at Chisholm Institute, Australia. Her research interests concern English as a lingua franca, communication strategies, intercultural communication, and cultural linguistics.