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Lingua Franca Communication

by Karlfried Knapp (Volume editor) Christiane Meierkord (Volume editor)
©2002 Edited Collection 310 Pages

Summary

Lingua francas are languages used for communication between individuals for whom they are not the first language. Based on empirical work throughout, the individual contributions to this volume address lingua franca communication from sociolinguistic as well as from conversation analytic perspectives, or place this form of communication within the wider context of foreign language teaching. The volume as a whole attempts to broaden the traditional view of lingua francas as languages employed by non-native speakers to serve specific, restricted communicative purposes only. Instead, it is demonstrated that lingua francas have gained a number of varied functions, and that they are employed by a heterogeneous group of speakers for whom they do not always have the same status of a second or foreign language. The papers reveal intriguing similarities in form across different lingua francas, but also point at significant differences. As a result, it is proposed that approaches to teach lingua francas as such need to be developed on the basis of empirical evidence.

Details

Pages
310
Publication Year
2002
ISBN (PDF)
9783653047301
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631364604
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-04730-1
Language
English
Publication date
2014 (May)
Keywords
Sprache Lingua Linguistik
Published
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2002. 310 pp., num. tab.

Biographical notes

Karlfried Knapp (Volume editor) Christiane Meierkord (Volume editor)

The Editors: Karlfried Knapp is professor of Applied and English Linguistics at the University of Erfurt. His main areas of research are the sociolinguistics of English, interpreting, intercultural communication and second language acquisition. Christiane Meierkord teaches English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt. She received a Ph.D. from Düsseldorf University for her thesis on non-native/non-native speaker interaction in English.

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