This paper explores the assumptions underlying the core concept of language used in the
growing field of language‐sensitive research in international management. We reviewed 92 …

The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca, or ELF, as it is more often called,
begins where it ends: by looking back to ELF's earliest days. The very final chapter of the …

This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at
the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus …

In the past years, it has become generally accepted that the social dynamics of ELF cannot
be captured by the notion of a speech community. Instead, the concept Community of …

The teaching of English in the Expanding Circle, traditionally called EFL countries, has long
been regarded as having no choice but to follow Inner Circle or Anglo-American norms, both …

Pragmatics and intercultural communication are two interrelated areas that have been of
crucial importance for ELF research, but are also entwined in multiple ways. Clearly, there is …

Abstract In 1988 and 2006, Applied Linguistics published Low's and Littlemore and Low's
seminal theoretical accounts of second language (L2) metaphoric competence (MC) …

The underlying theme of this book is untruthfulness, which is understood as the expression
of what one believes to be false and conceptualised in view of a neo-Gricean framework …

To maximize the advantages of virtual learning, the present study highlights the potential for
Internet meme design and creation in English language learning (ELL) courses as an …

This article investigates the connection between multilingual experiences and creative
metaphoric competence. As multilingualism has been shownto bring cognitive advantages …