series: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF]

Published by De Gruyter Mouton

Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF]

Edited by: Jennifer Jenkins and Will Baker

ISSN: 2192-8177

e-ISSN 2192-8185

Overview
Volumes

This series welcomes book proposals detailing innovative and cutting edge research and theorisation in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF), in essence, English as the chosen medium of communication among people from different first languages. The unprecedented use of English as an international lingua franca, largely because of its relationship with the processes of globalisation, has led to the realization that conventional attitudes to English and approaches to its study need to be critically examined. This has resulted in a very considerable and fast-growing field of research that is concerned both with the sociolinguistic significance of English as lingua franca as a naturally adaptive linguistic development and with its theoretical as well as applied linguistic implications. ELF, as phenomenon and as study, is not only diverse and emergent, it is also controversial and rapidly gaining in importance.

The purpose of the series is to offer a wide forum for work on ELF, including aspects such as descriptions and analyses of ELF; ELF use in a range of domains including education (primary, secondary and tertiary), business, tourism; conceptual works challenging current assumptions about English use and usage; works exploring the implications of ELF for English language policy, pedagogy, and practice; and ELF in relation to global multilingualism.

Finally, in line with the subject matter of the series, authors are not required to use native English, but to write in a way that is intelligible to a wide international readership. To our knowledge, Developments in English as a Lingua Franca is the first book series to build this approach into its official policy.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Topics

book: English as a Lingua Franca among Adolescents

Book 2023

English as a Lingua Franca among Adolescents

Transcultural Pragmatics in a German-Tanzanian School Setting

Katharina Beuter

Volume 18 in this series

This volume is not only the first book-length investigation into adolescents’ use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it also explores ELF in an African-European context, which has received little attention in ELF research so far.

The book examines the interplay between language, culture and identity in adolescents’ ELF interactions. It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to explore strategies secondary school students employ in a German-Tanzanian student exchange in order to reach their communicative goals. Introducing and drawing on the TeenELF corpus, the book investigates the speaker- and situation-specific potential of repetition and repair, complimenting, laughter and humour as well as various practices of translanguaging. The study reveals ELF as a transcultural space, in which different linguacultural influences meet and merge, while meaning, rapport and identity are interactionally negotiated.

In the face of an increasing interest in ELF-informed pedagogy, the present approach investigates the communicative needs and competences of school students and derives both theoretical as well as classroom implications from its linguistic findings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110786576
ISBN:: 9783110786576
ISBN:: 9783110786613
ISBN:: 9783110786491
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Medical English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2022

Medical English as a Lingua Franca

M. Gregory Tweedie, Robert C. Johnson

Volume 16 in this series

In this first book-length treatment of MELF, the authors assert that MELF represents an important contribution to our understanding of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), in that existing ELF research has been limited to relatively low stakes communicative situations, such as interactions in business, academia, internet blogging or casual conversations. Medical contexts, in contrast, often represent situations calling for exceptional communicative precision and urgency. Providing both evidence from their own research and analysis from (the limited number of) existing studies, the authors offer a counterpoint to the optimism regarding communicative success prevalent in ELF. The book proposes a theoretical perspective on how the various features of healthcare communication serve as important variables in shaping interaction among speakers of ELF, further enlarging our understanding of this emerging sub-field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110697025
ISBN:: 9783110697025
ISBN:: 9783110696974
ISBN:: 9783110697070
ISBN:: 9783111355535
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Conflict Talk in English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2023

Conflict Talk in English as a Lingua Franca

Analyzing Multimodal Resources in Casual ELF Conversations

Mayu Konakahara

Volume 15 in this series

This volume aims to fill two gaps in pragmatic research into English as a lingua franca (ELF): the investigation of conflict talk and the incorporation of a multimodal perspective into the analysis of ELF interactions. To this end, multimodal conversation analysis is used, combined with the perspective of politeness theory. The author shows how interactants use multimodal resources to manage competitive overlaps, disagreement, and third-party complaints in casual ELF conversations among friends. In doing so, the notion of cooperativeness is re-examined, and the appropriateness of an intercultural approach to analyzing multimodal resources in ELF interactions is demonstrated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512964
ISBN:: 9781501512964
ISBN:: 9781501517815
ISBN:: 9781501512889
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Multimodality
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Intercultural Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2022

Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca

Findings and Developments

Ian Walkinshaw

Volume 14 in this series

This volume addresses two current gaps in pragmatics research in English as a lingua franca (ELF): Firstly, the contexts, approaches and theories of pragmatics generally that remain under-explored in studies of ELF speakers; secondly, the paucity of ELF pragmatics studies investigating Asia, despite its economic and geo-political importance and the role of English as a region-wide lingua franca. The volume draws together a range of pragmatics-related chapters contributed by leading experts in pragmatics, both in English as a lingua franca and more broadly. These either present new research that extends the current state of the field, or introduce approaches and theories from other areas of pragmatics that translate readily to analysis of ELF interaction. Five of the chapters are Asia-focused, examining pragmatic aspects of communication among Asian ELF users. The volume therefore offers scope for ELF pragmatics researchers to further broaden the field’s theoretical and analytical horizons, and adds to the quantity of knowledge about pragmatics in ELF communication in Asia. Its publication raises the visibility of this research area within the broader field of pragmatics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512520
ISBN:: 9781501512520
ISBN:: 9781501512391
ISBN:: 9781501517730
ISBN:: 9781501522000
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Language Ideologies in the Chinese Context

Book 2020

Language Ideologies in the Chinese Context

Orientations to English as a Lingua Franca

Ying Wang

Volume 12 in this series

This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a rapidly developing economy with vigorous promotion of Chinese around the world. The book addresses Chinese speakers' ideologies in relation to ELF and provides insights into non-native English speakers' engagement in the development of English in the future.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503702
ISBN:: 9781501503702
ISBN:: 9781501503665
ISBN:: 9781501511684
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Identity and Pragmatic Language Use

Book 2020

Identity and Pragmatic Language Use

A Study on Japanese ELF Users

Yoko Nogami

Volume 11 in this series

ELF (English as a lingua franca) research counters the monocentric view of English based on norms of native speakers of English, and supports any usages reflecting sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic reality of ELF communication. Such an approach empowers any speakers of English to contemplate their own varieties of English as legitimate, providing them greater options for positive self-identification. Based on qualitative and interpretive methodology, this book illustrates how Japanese L2 English users establish identities related to L2 English as part of their multiple identities, and how they explore new identity options through ELF. Moreover, the author demonstrates how power relations relating to English language are constructed through the participants’ experiences in ELF interactions. Also, analysis of the data reveals that to what degree the Japanese L2 English users wish to affiliate with particular groups in ELF interactions with people from diverse cultural background.
Because of the multidisciplinary nature of the study, this book will appeal to a broad audience such as scholars and students who are interested in further understanding of identity and sociocultural issues involved in intercultural communication.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504211
ISBN:: 9781501504211
ISBN:: 9781501512131
ISBN:: 9781501504174
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education

Book 2017

English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education

A Brazilian Perspective

Telma Gimenez, Michele Salles El Kadri, Luciana Cabrini Simões Calvo

Volume 10 in this series

A lingua franca perspective into English language teaching in Brazil has only recently take flight. As an emerging economy, the country faces enormous challenges when it comes to language education in schools, where English has traditionally been taught as a foreign language. This collection brings the perspectives of academics and language practitioners in their efforts to incorporate an ELF approach into teacher education, thus offering a voice sorely missed in the international community interested in developing new approaches to English in a global world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511776
ISBN:: 9781501503856
ISBN:: 9781501503795
ISBN:: 9781501511776
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Language Regulation in English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2016

Language Regulation in English as a Lingua Franca

Focus on Academic Spoken Discourse

Niina Hynninen

Volume 9 in this series

Language regulation has often been approached from a top-down policy perspective, whereas this book examines regulatory practices employed by speakers in interaction. With its ethnographically informed focus on language regulation in academic English as a lingua franca (ELF), the book is a timely contribution to debates about what counts as acceptable English in ELF contexts, who can act as language expert, and when regulation is needed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614516675
ISBN:: 9781614516675
ISBN:: 9781614517689
ISBN:: 9781501500527
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Culture and Identity through English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2015

Culture and Identity through English as a Lingua Franca

Rethinking Concepts and Goals in Intercultural Communication

Will Baker

Volume 8 in this series

The use of English as a global lingua franca has given rise to new challenges and approaches in our understanding of language and communication. One area where ELF (English as a lingua franca) studies, both from an empirical and theoretical orientation, have the potential for significant developments is in our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity. ELF challenges traditional assumptions concerning the purposed 'inexorable' link between a language and a culture. Due to the multitude of users and contexts of ELF communication the supposed language, culture and identity correlation, often conceived at the national level, appears simplistic and naïve. However, it is equally naïve to assume that ELF is a culturally and identity neutral form of communication. All communication involves participants, purposes, contexts and histories, none of which are 'neutral'. Thus, we need new approaches to understanding the relationship between language, culture and identity which are able to account for the multifarious and dynamic nature of ELF communication.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502149
ISBN:: 978-1-5015-1062-5
ISBN:: 978-1-5015-0214-9
ISBN:: 9781501515880
ISBN:: 9781501502163
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking

Book 2014

English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking

Blogging Practices

Paola Vettorel

Volume 7 in this series

In a constantly interconnected world communication takes place beyond territorial boundaries, in networks where English works as a lingua franca. The volume explores how ELF is employed in internationally-oriented personal blogs; findings show how bloggers deploy an array of resources to their expressive and interactional aims, combining global and local communicative practices. Implications of findings in ELF and ELT terms are also discussed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110336009
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032285-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033600-9
ISBN:: 9783110393958
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2015

Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca

Yasemin Bayyurt, Sumru Akcan

Volume 6 in this series

The aim of this edited volume is to examine how current theories and principles underlying English as a Lingua Franca studies contribute to research on present pedagogical practices in ELF contexts. The book provides useful insights into pedagogical practices in different ELF settings and knowledge on the pedagogy-policy relationship in terms of ELF.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110335965
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032297-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033596-5
ISBN:: 9783110395402
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Reflexively Speaking

Book Open Access 2023

Reflexively Speaking

Metadiscourse in English as a Lingua Franca

Anna Mauranen

Volume 5 in this series

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Reflexive language - the capacity of language to speak about itself - is unique to human languages; yet little is known of its use in actual dialogue. Fundamental features of language are manifest in dialogic speech and in lingua francas. Both are taken on board in this book, which radically widens our conception of reflexivity in discourse. Reflexivity, or metadiscourse, is central to successful communication. It is also vital in understanding academic argumentation, essential to academic self-understanding, and at the same time it has wide applications.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295498
ISBN:: 9783110295498
ISBN:: 9783110395150
ISBN:: 9783110286779
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Communities of Practice and English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2013

Communities of Practice and English as a Lingua Franca

A Study of Students in a Central European Context

Karolina Kalocsai

Volume 4 in this series

This is a timely book on one of the most widely debated issues in applied linguistics: what is the social and cultural significance of English as a lingua franca for the internationally mobile students of the 21st century in Central Europe? Through an in-depth analysis of social practices, the book develops an exciting, innovative multilingual approach to out-of-class language use and language learning that engages students in the co-construction of identities. Apart from scholars, the book will appeal to policy makers and educators who are concerned with the internationalization of universities in Central Europe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295511
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029547-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029551-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English as an Academic Lingua Franca

Book 2013

English as an Academic Lingua Franca

An Investigation of Form and Communicative Effectiveness

Beyza Björkman

Volume 3 in this series

As a result of globalization, higher education institutions throughout the world are adopting English for parts of their education. Higher education is becoming increasingly international and thus linguistically diverse, for educational, idealistic and financial reasons. This book presents a much-needed description of English as a lingua franca (ELF) from an international university setting and focuses on form and pragmatic issues, using authentic spoken data. It provides useful insights into how communicative effectiveness can be achieved in spoken lingua franca communication.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279542
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027914-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027954-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2018

Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca

Idiom and Metaphor

Marie-Luise Pitzl

Volume 2 in this series

This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). Building on the findings of previous ELF research, the book proposes that creativity might serve as a fundamental concept in accounting for the variation that seems to be central to describing and understanding English as a lingua franca.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501510083
ISBN:: 9781501510083
ISBN:: 9781501516887
ISBN:: 9781501510038
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Misunderstandings in English as a Lingua Franca

Book 2013

Misunderstandings in English as a Lingua Franca

An Analysis of ELF Interactions in South-East Asia

David Deterding

Volume 1 in this series

This book explores the nature and causes of misunderstandings in ELF interactions. It is based on a corpus of conversations between English speakers from south and east Asia that helps us investigate what causes misunderstandings, particularly the pronunciation, grammar, word choice, and discourse. The book also considers how such misunderstandings may be signalled and repaired. Finally, it discusses the implications for teaching English around the world and offers guidance to teachers in enabling their students to become highly intelligible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110288599
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028651-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028859-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Intercultural Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

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