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Language Regulation in English as a Lingua Franca : Focus on Academic Spoken Discourse / Niina Hynninen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] ; 9Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (IX, 317 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781614517689
  • 9781501500527
  • 9781614516675
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language regulation -- 3. Previous research on ELF and language regulation -- 4. Exploring an academic ELF setting in Finland: the research site and methodology -- 5. Language-regulatory practices -- 6. Interview accounts: perceptions of English and its regulation -- 7. Comparisons: the construction of living norms -- 8. Conclusions and implications -- Appendices -- References -- Index
Summary: Language regulation has often been approached from a top-down policy perspective, whereas this book examines regulatory practices employed by speakers in interaction. With its ethnographically informed focus on language regulation in academic English as a lingua franca (ELF), the book is a timely contribution to debates about what counts as acceptable English in ELF contexts, who can act as language expert, and when regulation is needed.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781614516675

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language regulation -- 3. Previous research on ELF and language regulation -- 4. Exploring an academic ELF setting in Finland: the research site and methodology -- 5. Language-regulatory practices -- 6. Interview accounts: perceptions of English and its regulation -- 7. Comparisons: the construction of living norms -- 8. Conclusions and implications -- Appendices -- References -- Index

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Language regulation has often been approached from a top-down policy perspective, whereas this book examines regulatory practices employed by speakers in interaction. With its ethnographically informed focus on language regulation in academic English as a lingua franca (ELF), the book is a timely contribution to debates about what counts as acceptable English in ELF contexts, who can act as language expert, and when regulation is needed.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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