English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-based Analysis

English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-based Analysis


Yazar Luke Prodromou
Yayınevi Continuum
ISBN 9780826425850
Baskı yılı 2010
Sayfa sayısı 326
Ağırlık 0.46 kg
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Using a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomaticity in English as a native language, and its comparative role in English as a lingua franca. Through examining how idiomaticity en
1. Introduction; 2. Idiomatic fluency; 3. Mainstream and ELF-oriented approaches to spoken language; 4. Analysis of conversational data; 5. Corpus methodology; 6. Concordance analysis in L1 and L2 spoken corpora; 7. Small words in the case of L1 users; 8.