Understanding English as a Lingua Franca

by Barbara Seidlhofer

The spread of English as the international lingua franca (ELF), like other aspects of globalization, calls for a reconsideration of conventional ways of thinking. As the language is taken over and put to effective communicative use by non-native speakers on a global scale, assumptions that native speakers have exclusive property rights, and are the arbiters of its proper use, are obviously no longer tenable. ELF typically departs from native speaker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0194375005
• ISBN13: 9780194375009
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"