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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 November 2019
      28 November 2019
      ISBN:
      9781316217832
      9781107103801
      9781107503373
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316217832
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 212 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 270 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Applied Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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    English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use of English as a common language for communication between speakers whose first language is not English. Providing a unique and original perspective on this subject, Istvan Kecskes explains the language behaviour of ELF speakers, through the lens of Gricean pragmatics. This study successfully brings together the main viewpoints of the Gricean paradigm into ELF research, to discuss and better understand the nature of ELF interactions, as well as explaining how Gricean pragmatics can benefit from investigating and analysing ELF. Each chapter presents intriguing ideas that put existing knowledge into a new perspective, such as interactional competence, intention, implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics interface, and modality. New terms and viewpoints such as language use mode, deliberate creativity, temporary extension of the system, emergent common ground and modality continuum are introduced into the ELF debate.

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