Findings and developments in ELF pragmatics research:An introduction
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Walkinshaw, Ian
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2022
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For me, pragmatics in English in a lingua franca (ELF) is epitomised by a recording in the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) of three female students chatting in a college dormitory (MS_ED_con_6): two Malaysians who speak Malay, Cantonese and English, and one Chinese woman who speaks Mandarin and English. They are hilarious to listen to. Their talk bounces from topic to topic, they tease and josh each other relentlessly, and they laugh constantly. I mention them here because their talk exemplifies some prominent characteristics of pragmatics in English as a lingua franca. To set the ...
View more >For me, pragmatics in English in a lingua franca (ELF) is epitomised by a recording in the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) of three female students chatting in a college dormitory (MS_ED_con_6): two Malaysians who speak Malay, Cantonese and English, and one Chinese woman who speaks Mandarin and English. They are hilarious to listen to. Their talk bounces from topic to topic, they tease and josh each other relentlessly, and they laugh constantly. I mention them here because their talk exemplifies some prominent characteristics of pragmatics in English as a lingua franca. To set the scene for this volume, I briefly sketch some pragmatic features of the women’s discourse, before moving on to a more systematic description of ELF pragmatics in Section 2.
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View more >For me, pragmatics in English in a lingua franca (ELF) is epitomised by a recording in the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) of three female students chatting in a college dormitory (MS_ED_con_6): two Malaysians who speak Malay, Cantonese and English, and one Chinese woman who speaks Mandarin and English. They are hilarious to listen to. Their talk bounces from topic to topic, they tease and josh each other relentlessly, and they laugh constantly. I mention them here because their talk exemplifies some prominent characteristics of pragmatics in English as a lingua franca. To set the scene for this volume, I briefly sketch some pragmatic features of the women’s discourse, before moving on to a more systematic description of ELF pragmatics in Section 2.
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Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca: Findings and Developments
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Linguistics
Discourse and pragmatics
Language Arts & Disciplines