The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Lingua Franca Context

by Mercedes Durham

In a world where an increasing amount of communication takes place in English among non-native speakers, this study presents data from email exchanges to provide the first examination of sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of native-like variability in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context. The analysis of a range of linguistic variables (future tense, relative pronoun choice, complementizer use and adverbial placement) in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783091436
• ISBN13: 9781783091430
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"