Durham The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Lingua Franca Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78309-145-4
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 75, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Second Language Acquisition

In a world where an increasing amount of communication takes place in English among non-native speakers, this study presents data from email exchanges to provide the first examination of sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of native-like variability in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context. The analysis of a range of linguistic variables (future tense, relative pronoun choice, complementizer use and adverbial placement) in the online interactions of Swiss speakers (with German, French and Italian mother tongues) allows the reader to gain a greater understanding of which linguistic features are source language-related and which are learning-related. This book will be a valuable resource for postgraduates and researchers interested in language variation and change, ELF and second language acquisition, as well as for undergraduates wanting guidance on different ways of examining sociolinguistic variables.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Durham, Mercedes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1. English as a Lingua Franca

2. Second Language Variation

3. English as a Lingua Franca in a Multilingual Context: Switzerland

4. Data

5. Methodology

6. Future

7. Relatives

8. Complementizers

9. Lexical Variation: Also, as well and too

10. Discussion

11. Conclusion

References

Über Autor(innen)

Durham, Mercedes
Mercedes Durham is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at Cardiff University. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language variation and change, English as a world language, dialects of English and the acquisition of variation.