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

Title
  1. The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca / edited by Prue Holmes and Fred Dervin.
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  1. Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2016]

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Additional authors
  1. Holmes, Prue
  2. Dervin, Fred, 1974-
Description
  1. xv, 221 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Authors discuss how {u2018}culture{u2019} and the {u2018}intercultural{u2019} can be understood, theorised and operationalised in ELF, and how the concepts can be integrated into formats of ELF-oriented learning and teaching. The various cultural connotations are also discussed (ideological, political, religious and historical) and whether it is possible to use and/or teach a lingua franca as if it were culturally neutral. The chapters consider the communication and pedagogical implications of the cultural and intercultural dimensions of ELF and offer suggestions for new directions in ELF research, pedagogy and curriculum development.
Series statement
  1. Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education ; 29
Uniform title
  1. Languages for intercultural communication and education 29.
Subject
  1. Intercultural communication
  2. Multicultural education
  3. Lingua francas
  4. Language and languages > Variation
  5. Cross-cultural orientation
  6. Language and education
  7. Language and culture
  8. Cross-cultural orientation
  9. Intercultural communication
  10. Language and culture
  11. Language and education
  12. Lingua francas
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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