Istvan Kecskes (Albany State University of New York)

English as a Lingua Franca

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781107503373
• ISBN-10: 110750337X
• Artikelnr.: 63557971

Autorenporträt

Istvan Kecskes is Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, Albany. He is the President of the American Pragmatics Association and the CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) Association. He is author of Foreign Language and Mother Tongue (2000, with Tunde Papp), Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2 (2003) and Intercultural Pragmatics (2013). He is the founding editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The nature of English as a Lingua Franca
2. Linguistic creativity in ELF
3. Interactional competence
4. Sociocultural background knowledge
5. Speaker's intention
6. The semantics-pragmatics interface
7. Implicatures
8. Modality
9. Dialogic sequences and odd structures
Epilogue.