The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Prue Holmes and Fred Dervin.
• Editors: Holmes, Prue; Dervin, Fred, 1974-
• Contents: Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction ; Part I: The Interconnections and Inter-relationships between Interculturality and ELF 1. Karen Risager: Lingua Francas in a World of Migrations 2. Richard Fay, Nicos Sifakis and Vally Lytra: Interculturalities of English as a Lingua Franca: International Communication and Multicultural Awareness in the Greek Context 3. Will Baker: Culture and Language in Intercultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca and English Language Teaching: Points of Convergence and Conflict Part II: Grounding Conceptual Understandings of Interculturality in ELF Communication 4. Chris Jenks: Talking Cultural Identities into Being in ELF Interactions: An Investigation of International Postgraduate Students in the United Kingdom 5. Anne Kari Bjørge: Conflict Talk and ELF Communities of Practice 6. Jagdish Kaur: Intercultural Misunderstanding Revisited: Cultural Difference as a (Non) Source of Misunderstanding in ELF Communication 7. Tiina Räisänen: Finnish Engineers’ Trajectories of Socialization into Global Working Life: From Language Learners to BELF Users and the Emergence of A Finnish Way of Speaking English 8. Eric Henry: The Local Purposes of a Global Language: English as Intracultural Communicative Medium in China Part III: Commentary John O’Regan: Intercultural Communication and the Possibility of English as a Lingua Franca
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.44221; Intercultural communication; Multicultural education; Lingua francas; Language and languages -- Variation; Cross-cultural orientation; Language and education; Language and culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783095117; 9781783095100; 9781783095124
• Related ISBNs: 9781783095094; 9781783095087
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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