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English as a lingua franca: a standalone construct

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Sociolinguistics

the use of English as the shared contact language between speakers who have different first languages, studied on its own terms.

In sociolinguistics, English as a lingua franca refers to the use of English as the shared contact language between speakers who have different first languages, studied on its own terms. This meaning comes from Seidlhofer (2001) in International Journal of Applied Linguistics.[1]

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contact2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs lingua franca core1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

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Seidlhofer, B. (2001). Closing A Conceptual Gap: The Case For A Description Of English As A Lingua Franca. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 11(2), 133-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/1473-4192.00011

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