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12 - What Is English in the Light of Lingua Franca Usage?

from Part V - English in Lingua Franca Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2019

By
Iris Schaller-Schwaner  and
Andy Kirkpatrick
Edited by
Christopher J. Hall  and
Rachel Wicaksono
Christopher J. Hall
Affiliation:
York St John University
Rachel Wicaksono
Affiliation:
York St John University
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Summary

The origin of the term ‘lingua franca’ is unclear. According to Ostler (2010, p. 7), lingua franca “seems to be a retranslation of some Eastern-Mediterranean term for ‘language of the Franks’”. Ostler also notes (2010, p. 4) the “original ‘Lingua Franca’ was once a particular language … the common contact language of the Eastern-Mediterranean in the first half of the second millennium, the pidgin Italian in which Greeks and Turks could talk to Frenchmen and Italians”. He defines a lingua franca as a “contact language used for communication among people who do not share a mother tongue” (2010, p. 36). Seidlhofer points out that the term has Latin roots meaning something like ‘free language’. “It is thus not fanciful to think of ‘Lingua Franca’ as ‘free language’ … a means of intercultural communication not particular to countries and ethnicities, a linguistic resource that is not contained in, or constrained by traditional (and notoriously tendentious) ideas of what constitutes a ‘language’” (2011, p. 81).

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English as a Lingua Francamultilingual practicelanguage ontologyEnglish in South East AsiaEnglish in Switzerlandinstitutional bilingualismcommunity of practice,
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Ontologies of English
Conceptualising the Language for Learning, Teaching, and Assessment
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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