Strategic use and Perceptions of English as a Lingua Franca

• Authors: Alessia Cogo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

English as a Lingua Franca is today a thriving and vibrant field of research which has sparked considerable debate but also a wealth of studies in various directions. This paper builds on recent research in this field and focuses on two areas of investigation, namely pragmatic strategies and perceptions of ELF, while placing them within the larger theoretical framework of ELF studies.

Keywords

EN

English as a Lingua Franca; pragmatic strategies; idiomaticity; language perceptions

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 295-312

Dates

published

2010-09-01

online

2010-09-22

Contributors

author

Alessia Cogo

• University of Surrey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-010-0013-7