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Book SynopsisThe contributions collected in this book provide a wide range of perspectives on and prospects for the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), and explore various contexts where ELF is used predominantly: Academic and research settings as well as teacher and general population education, including pronunciation teaching. The chapters look at ELF data and concerns taking into consideration the areas of phonology, grammar, pragmatics alongside more specific, sociolinguistic ones such as attitudes and identity. The chapters also seek to invoke and provoke further discussion and research on the complex and multifarious forms of the «Englishes» that people are using around the world in their daily encounters in English. Accordingly, most of the studies described in the chapters orient their methodology and discussion to a particular macro- or micro-context of intercultural communication (IC), as the main scope of the exploratory work presented here is not so much the system of ELF, but the pragmatics of communication and its strategies. The specific interest of this volume thus lies in bridging the gap between two distinct areas of scholarship, ELF studies, on the one hand, and IC studies, on the other, and in doing so from a «semiperipherical» European perspective and from a view of ELF as social practice.
Table of ContentsIgnacio Guillén-Galve/Ignacio Vázquez-Orta: Introduction Part I: ELF and Intercultural Communication – Concepción Orna-Montesinos: Reconceptualizing Linguistic Diversity and its Role in Intercultural Communication: A Literature Review – Lili Cavalheiro: The Importance of ELF and Intercultural Communication in Teacher Education: A Case Study from Portugal Maria Grazia Guido/Pietro Luigi Iaia/Lucia Errico: ELF-mediated Intercultural Communication between Migrants and Tourists in an Italian Project of Responsible Tourism: A Multimodal Ethnopoetic Approach to Modern and Classical Sea-voyage Narratives – Part II: ELF in Academic and Research Settings – Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo: May the Status of English as the Lingua Franca of International Communication Affect Learners’ Attitudes towards Language Learning? – Silvia Murillo: Discourse Markers and Academic Writing in English as a Lingua Franca – Isabel Corona: «It is a great pleasure …»: Chairing at Academic Conferences – Pilar Mur-Dueñas: Exploring Interpersonality Features in ELF Research Articles: From Rhetorical and Discursive Homogeneity to Lexico-Grammatical Hybridity – Part III: ELF and Online Academic Communication – Rosa Lorés-Sanz: The Use of ELF in International Online Conference Announcements: Changing Modes and Means of Academic Communication – María José Luzón: Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) as ELF Settings: An Analysis of Interactional Strategies in ResearchGate Discussions – Part IV: ELF and Pronunciation Teaching – Jolanta Szpyra-KozŁowska: English Pronunciation in Intercultural Communication - ELF Assumptions versus Accent Attitudes: Implications for Foreign Learners’ Phonetic Instruction – Ignacio Guillén-Galve: Investigating the Teaching of the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca to Adult Learners of English for Academic Purposes: A case for Fine-Tuning at the Intersection of Socio-Linguistics and English Language Education – Notes on Contributors
