English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective
Author:   Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   212
Publication Date:   28 November 2019
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Author:   Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781107103801


ISBN 10:   1107103800
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   28 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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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

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