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Author: Nicholas Ostler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0802717713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the rise and fall of English as the most widely spoken language in human history and discusses what language will overtake its dominance as English-speaking nations are challenged by the rising wealth of Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Author: Nicholas Ostler
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1846142164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author of "Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin" presents an erudite and provocative examination of the rise and coming fall of English as the world's language. Illustrations. Maps.
Author: Nicholas Ostler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0802778704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English is the world's lingua franca-the most widely spoken language in human history. And yet, as historian and linguist Nicholas Ostler persuasively argues, English will not only be displaced as the world's language in the not-distant future, it will be the last lingua franca, not replaced by another. Empire, commerce, and religion have been the primary raisons d'etre for lingua francas--Greek, Latin, Arabic have all held the position--and Ostler explores each through the lens of civilizations spanning the globe and history, from China and India to Russia and Europe. Three trends emerge that suggest the ultimate decline of English and other lingua francas. Movements throughout the world towards equality in society will downgrade the status of elites--and since elites are the prime users of non-native English, the language will gradually retreat to its native-speaking territories. The rising wealth of Brazil, Russia, India, and China will challenge the dominance of native-English-speaking nations--thereby shrinking the international preference for English. Simultaneously, new technologies will allow instant translation among major languages, enhacing the status of mother tongues and lessening the necessity for any future lingua franca. Ostler predicts a soft landing for English: It will still be widely spoken, if no longer worldwide, sustained by America's continued power on the world stage. But its decline will be both symbolic and significant, evidence of grand shifts in the cultural effects of empire. The Last Lingua Franca is both an insightful examination of the trajectory of our own mother tongue and a fascinating lens through which to view the sweep of history.
Author: Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1135235562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew argues that history is a theatre for the realization of lingua francas, offering a model that shows the present as derived from the past and as a bearer of future possibility, the understanding of which is rooted in the understanding of World Englishes and ELF. The book will engage with some of the current theoretical debates in WEs and includes, as a means of fleshing out the model, sociolinguistic case studies of Arabia, China Fujian, and Singapore.
Author: Anna Mauranen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009-10-02
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1443815810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English as a lingua franca has become a hot topic in Applied Linguistics and English Studies. While it has been a subject of controversy for some time, linguistic observations on actual use have largely been missing out of the debate. This is now changing fast, and the study of English as a lingua franca has become a vibrant research field. This book reflects achievements in the growing field; it presents a good selection of empirical findings, thus providing substance to arguments. It comprises contributions from pioneers and established scholars in the field, along with reports from substantial ongoing research projects. The papers offer insights into the workings of English as a lingua franca in different contexts—conversational, academic, professional, and business situations. They tackle essential theoretical issues, analyse linguistic and interactional features of ELF, and discuss attitudes towards ELF. The studies are firmly anchored in analyses of authentic language in social interaction, some also using survey and interview data. Many papers also touch upon debates on language policy and linguistic ideologies. This collection of papers from the key areas of current ELF research will be of interest to English linguists and applied linguists, graduate and undergraduate students of English, educational and language planners, and teachers of English.
Author: J. E. Wansborough
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1136779655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The subject of this study is the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Based on texts of chancery provenance, its aim is the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel of international relations. The standard procedures of contact and exchange generated a format that facilitated inter-lingual transfer of concepts and terms. Lingua Franca refers to the several natural languages that served as vehicle in the transfer, but also to the format itself.
Author: Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-07-26
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the perspective of the speakers themselves, this is the first book to explore attitudes towards ELF in general and ELF accents in particular, their effects on ELF speakers' identities, and ways in which the problems can be addressed in teacher education, English language testing, and ELT materials.
Author: Natalie Operstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1316518310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.
Author: Barbara Seidlhofer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-01-10
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0194426203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A complete introduction to the theoretical nature and practical implications of English used as a lingua franca. Explore the theories and principles of English as a Lingua Franca with leading expert Barbara Seidlhofer
Author: Istvan Kecskes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-28
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1107103800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across the fields of pragmatics, language contact, world Englishes, second language acquisition, and English as a second language.
