Exploring ELF : academic English shaped by non-native speakers / Anna Mauranen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mauranen, Anna.

Series:

Cambridge applied linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Physical Description:

x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"This book explores the emerging area of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in academic settings. The emergence and recognition of English used as a Lingua Franca (ELF) offers new opportunities for investigating language change and language contact. This volume explores the use of English in an academic context and between speakers from a range of language backgrounds, and is the only book to date to present spoken academic English from a non-native speaker perspective. Data examined from the one-million-word English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA) corpus provides an in-depth account of how speakers use and shape the language through dialogue in intellectually and verbally demanding situations. Available separately as a paperback"-- Provided by publisher.

"The emergence and recognition of English used as a Lingua Franca (ELF) offers new opportunities for investigating language change and language contact. This timely volume explores the use of English in an academic context and between speakers from a range of language backgrounds. Data examined from the one-million-word English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA) corpus provides an in-depth account of how speakers use and shape the language through dialogue in intellectually and verbally demanding situations. Social and cognitive perspectives are offered on the form and function of the language as used in situ, including its phraseology and lexis, the negotiation of topics, and the co-construction of comprehension. Finally, the book discusses the implications of ELF for the language professions and suggests a way ahead for the future of ELF teaching and research. Exploring ELF is essential reading for practitioners and researchers involved in ELF and EAP"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1.Introduction

References

2.Three perspectives on ELF

2.1.The macrosocial perspective

2.2.The cognitive perspective

2.3.The microsocial perspective

2.4.Summary

3.Academic speech as data

3.1.The case of academic ELF

3.2.Why speaking rather than writing?

3.3.The ELFA corpus

3.4.A first glimpse: how does academic ELF compare to academic ENL?

4.Vocabulary in speaking ELF

4.1.Most common words in ELF and ENL

4.2.Variation in form and meaning

4.3.Approximation and processing

4.4.Summary

5.Within and outside the word: lexis meets structure

5.1.Common features of grammatical structure

5.2.Does structure matter?

5.3.Beyond the word: multi-word wholes

5.4.Summary

6.Discourse explicitness

6.1.Metadiscourse

6.2.Indicating local organisation

6.3.Close-up on I mean

6.4.Negotiating topics

6.5.Summary

7.Repetition and rephrasing

7.1.Repetition in speech

7.2.Repeats as repetition

7.3.Self-rephrasing

7.4.Repetition and interaction

7.5.Summary

8.Applications, implications, and the way ahead

8.1.Language teaching and testing

8.2.Other language professions: interpreting, translation, and text editing

8.3.Key points on ELF

8.4.The way ahead

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521177528

0521177529

9781107003958

1107003954

OCLC:

781077572

Online:

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