Accommodation and the idiom principle in English as a Lingua Franca

By B. Seidlhofer. 2009

139 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Citations in the corpus

• Intercultural awareness: modelling an understanding of cultures in intercultural communication through English as a lingua franca (2011, background): “…are key to understanding intercultural communication through ELF and ‘. . .it may turn out that what is distinctive about ELF lies in the communicative strategies that its speakers use rather than in their conformity to any changed set of language norms’ (Seidlhofer & Widdowson, 2009, pp. 37 38).”
• Raising explicitness through self-repair in English as a lingua franca (2011, background): “In addition to facilitating communication, these convergence strategies also signal cooperation and solidarity and allow participants to ‘‘reduce’’ the existing ‘‘differences in the interest of wider communication with other people’’ (Seidlhofer, 2009:196).”