Research Catalog

Title

The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca / edited by Prue Holmes and Fred Dervin.

Publication

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Holmes, Prue
• Dervin, Fred, 1974-

Series Statement

Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education ; 29

Uniform Title

Languages for intercultural communication and education 29.

Subject

• Intercultural communication
• Multicultural education
• Lingua francas
• Language and languages > Variation
• Cross-cultural orientation
• Language and education
• Language and culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: English as a lingua franca and interculturality: beyond orthodoxies / Prue Holmes and Fred Dervin -- Part 1: The interconnections and inter-relationships between interculturality and ELF -- 1 Lingua franca in a world of migrations / Karen Risager -- 2 Interculturalities of English as a lingua franca: international communications and multicultural awareness in the Greek context / Richard Fay, Nicos Sifakis and Vally Lytra -- 3 Culture and language in intercultural communication, English as a lingua franca and English language teaching: points of convergence and conflict / Will Baker -- Part 2: Grounding conceptual understandings of interculturality in EDF communication -- 4 Talking cultural identities into being ELF interactions: an investigation of international postgraduate students in the United Kingdom / Chris Jenks -- 5 Conflict talk and ELF communities of practice / Anne Kari Bjørge -- 6 Intercultural misunderstanding revisited: cultural difference as a (non) source of misunderstanding in ELF communication / Jagdish Kaur -- 7 Finnish engineers' trahectories of socialisation into global working life: from language learners to BELF users and the emergence of a Finnish way of speaking English / Tiina Räisänen -- 8 The local purposes of a global language: English as an intracultural communicative medium in China / Eric S. Henry -- Part 3: Commentary -- 9 Intercultural communication and the possibility of English as a lingua france / John O'Regan -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781783095094
• 1783095091
• 9781783095087
• 1783095083
• 9781783095100 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015036352

OCLC

• 925426464
• SCSB-10947087

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library