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Author:   Karlfried Knapp ,  Christiane Meierkord
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9783631364604

ISBN 10:   3631364601
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   07 January 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: C. Meierkord/K. Knapp: Approaching lingua franca communication - M. Meeuwis: The sociolinguistics of Lingala as a diaspora lingua franca: Historical and language ideological aspects - S. Fiedler: On the main characteristics of Esperanto-communication - M. Vollstedt: English as a language for internal company communications - C. Meierkord: 'Language stripped bare' or 'linguistic masala'? - Culture in lingua franca communication - P. Haegeman: Foreigner talk in lingua franca business telephone calls - A. Lesznyak: From chaos to smallest common denominator. Topic management in English lingua franca communication - J. Hee Bae: Discourse strategies solving trouble in German lingua franca communication - K. Knapp: The fading out of the non-native speaker. Native speaker dominance in lingua-franca-situations - J. House: Developing pragmatic competence in English as a lingua franca - B. Seidlhofer: The shape of things to come? Some basic question about English as a lingua franca.

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The Editors: Karlfried Knapp is professor of Applied and English Linguistics at the University of Erfurt. His main areas of research are the sociolinguistics of English, interpreting, intercultural communication and second language acquisition. Christiane Meierkord teaches English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt. She received a Ph.D. from Duesseldorf University for her thesis on non-native/non-native speaker interaction in English.

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