Analysing English as a lingua franca : a corpus-driven investigation / Alessia Cogo and Martin Dewey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cogo, Alessia.

Contributor:

Dewey, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation--Foreign countries.

English language.

English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.

English language--Variation.

English-speaking countries.

Intercultural communication.

English language--Globalization.

Physical Description:

vi, 207 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2012]

Summary:

Applied linguists Cogo (U. of Southampton, Britain) and Dewey (King's College London) have combined the research for their PhD dissertations, both in 2007, to present a large study of English as a world language spoken primarily by non-native speakers. Drawing on a corpus of 58 hours of audio-recorded spoken interaction, they demonstrate how speakers in English-as-lingua-franca interactions manipulate the linguistic resources of English in systematic, regular, but also varying ways. In particular they find that speakers routinely exploit the language to fit the immediate communicative environment, adapting and blending English innovatively and resourcefully to achieve a jointly constructed means of conveying and interpreting meaning. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Researching English in the world

Investigating lingua franca communication

Patterns of innovation in ELF lexicogrammar

Underlying motives and adaptive processes in ELF

Achieving understanding in ELF: focus on pragmatics

Supporting meaning: interactional pragmatics

The theoretical and practical implications of ELF.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441137258

1441137254

9781441158376

1441158375

OCLC:

606767033