The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca /

The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca / / ed. by Prue Holmes, Fred Dervin.

This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Authors discuss how 'culture' and the 'intercultural' can be understood, theorised and operationalised in ELF, and how the concepts can be integrated into formats of ELF-oriented le...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Will,
Bjørge, Anne Kari,
Byram, Mike,
Dervin, Fred,
Fay, Richard,
Henry, Eric S.,
Holmes, Prue,
Jenks, Chris,
Kaur, Jagdish,
Lytra, Vally,
O'Regan, John,
Risager, Karen,
Räisänen, Tiina,
Sifakis, Nicos,
HerausgeberIn:
Dervin, Fred,
Holmes, Prue,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Introduction - English as a Lingua Franca and Interculturality: Beyond Orthodoxies
  • Part 1: The Interconnections and Inter-Relationships Between Interculturality and ELF
  • 1. Lingua Francas in a World of Migrations
  • 2. Interculturalities of English as a Lingua Franca: International Communication and Multicultural Awareness in the Greek Context
  • 3. Culture and Language in Intercultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca and English Language Teaching: Points of Convergence and Conflict
  • Part 2: Grounding Conceptual Understandings of Interculturality in ELF Communication
  • 4. Talking Cultural Identities into Being in ELF Interactions: An Investigation of International Postgraduate Students in the United Kingdom
  • 5. Conflict Talk and ELF Communities of Practice
  • 6. Intercultural Misunderstanding Revisited: Cultural Difference as a (non) Source of Misunderstanding in ELF Communication
  • 7. Finnish Engineers' Trajectories of Socialisation into Global Working Life: From Language Learners to BELF Users and the Emergence of a Finnish Way of Speaking English
  • 8. The Local Purposes of a Global Language: English as an Intracultural Communicative Medium in China
  • Part 3: Commentary
  • 9. Intercultural Communication and the Possibility of English as a Lingua Franca
  • Index

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