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Analysing English as a Lingua Franca

A Corpus-driven Investigation

There have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. English is now undoubtedly (and particularly) an international lingua franca, a lingua mundi. The sociolinguistic reality of English language use worldwide, and its implications, continue to be hotly contested. This is one of the first books to provide a detailed and comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Cogo and Dewey analyze and interpret their own large corpus of naturally occurring spoken interactions and focus on identifying innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers engaged in ELF talk. Cogo and Dewey's work makes a substantial contribution to the emerging field of empirical ELF studies. As well as this practical focus, this book looks at both pragmatic and lexicogrammatical issues and highlights their interrelationship. In showcasing the underlying processes involved in the emergence of innovative patterns of language use, this book will be of great interest to advanced students and academics working in applied linguistics, ELF, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.

In this space the participants and the researcher (who was sometimes present
and taking part in the conversations recorded) carry out their daily tasks and
engage in conversations concerning both work and non-work-related topics.
Corpus B consists of approximately 50 hours of recordings of naturally occurring,
face-to-face conversations, of which about 20 hours have been fully transcribed.
In total 14 participants took part in the data collection for Corpus B, with a total of
12 first ...