Communicating Strategically in English as a Lin, Jafari Paperback..

Name: Communicating Strategically in English as a Lin, Jafari Paperback..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Communicating Strategically in English as a Lingua FrancaA Corpus Driven Investigation\nAuthor(s): Janin Jafari\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367655105, 978-0367655105\nSynopsis\nThere have been noticeable demographic changes recently in the use of English around the world. English as a medium of communication is now the contact language of native speakers from many diverse speech communities who interact with each other in multilingual contexts. The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and its implications has become a hot topic in applied linguistics and English studies. \n\nCommunicating Strategically in English as a Lingua Franca reflects the growing interest in achieving communicative effectiveness in ELF situations and provides a comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of ELF. It analyzes and interprets the author's own large corpus of naturally occurring spoken interactions a.