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Exploring ELF

Exploring ELF
Academic English Shaped by Non-native Speakers

Author

Anna Mauranen

English Type

British English

Availability

Available

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780521177528

Date Published

May 2013

Product description

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 hardback.

Key features

  • Combines a theoretical framework with a large number of examples.
  • Discovers patterns and uses of current academic English in international use.
  • Presents conclusions and resulting implications for teachers and investigators.

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