Description - Understanding English as a Lingua Franca by Barbara Seidlhofer
The spread of English as the international lingua franca (ELF), like other aspects of globalization, calls for a reconsideration of conventional ways of thinking. As the language is taken over and put to effective communicative use by non-native speakers on a global scale, assumptions that native speakers have exclusive property rights, and are the arbiters of its proper use, are obviously no longer tenable. ELF typically departs from native speaker usage in a
variety of ways, but in ways which are consistent with the kind of variation that is evident in any natural language.This book argues that ELF needs to be understood as an adaptable
and creative use of language in its own right, and not as a deviant or erroneous version of native speaker English. It demonstrates how its
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