English as a Lingua Franca
Author | : Istvan Kecskes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781107103801 |
ISBN-13 | : 1107103800 |
Rating | : 4/5 (800 Downloads) |
Download or read book English as a Lingua Franca written by Istvan Kecskes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across the fields of pragmatics, language contact, world Englishes, second language acquisition, and English as a second language.