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English as a lingua franca : the pragmatic perspective / Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, Albany.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kecskés, István, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Variation--Foreign countries.
- English language.
- English language--Globalization.
- Lingua francas.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- The nature of English as a lingua franca
- Linguistic creativity in ELF
- Interactional competence
- Sociocultural background knowledge
- Speaker's intention
- The semantics-pragmatics interface
- Implicatures
- Modality
- Dialogic sequences and odd structures
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107103801
- 1107103800
- OCLC:
- 1099544383
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