Page 1 OXFORD APPLIED LINGUISTICS Understanding English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer OXFORD Page 2 Published in this series BACHMAN: Fundamental …

Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural
communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and …

The complex and varied sociolinguistic reality of World Englishes and English as a Lingua
Franca (ELF) has important implications for English Language Teaching (ELT). Besides …

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 …

This book deals with intercultural pragmatics and how both nonnative teachers (NNTs) and
native teachers (NTs) may enhance their classroom instruction regarding target language …

A feature of language assessment internationally is its role in the enforcement of language
policies established by governments and other educational and cultural agencies. This trend …

In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus
tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists have greater access to data from around …

This article discusses creativity in English as a lingua franca (ELF) and its link to a
phenomenon of conventional language use, namely the use of idioms. Reviewing a number …

The paper argues that Negotiation (capitalised to differentiate from negotiation as an activity
type such as business negotiation) is the most important means of engagement in …

This article discusses how English used as a lingua franca (ELF) can be defined as an
object of study. It offers a critical appraisal of a high-profile definition of ELF (the …