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Culture and identity through English as a Lingua Franca : rethinking concepts and goals in intercultural communication / Will Baker.

By: Baker, Will (Language teacher) [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Developments in English as a lingua franca: Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin ; Boston, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xi, 284 pages : illustrations, 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501515880 (paperback).Subject(s): Language and culture | Intercultural communication -- Social aspects | Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Social aspects | English language -- Foreign countries | English language -- Social aspects | Lingua francasDDC classification: 306.44
Contents:
Intercultural communication and ELF -- Understanding culture through ELF -- Culture and identity through English as a lingua franca -- Re-examining intercultural communicative competence: intercultural awareness-- ELF and intercultural awareness: implications for English language teaching -- Putting it in practice: a study in ELF and ICA for language learners in Thailand.
Summary: The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) on a global scale forces a reassessment of our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity in intercultural communication.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 306.44 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module LANG8022-Supplementary reading. 00220443
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The use of English as a global lingua franca has given rise to new challenges and approaches in our understanding of language and communication. One area where ELF (English as a lingua franca) studies, both from an empirical and theoretical orientation, have the potential for significant developments is in our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity. ELF challenges traditional assumptions concerning the purposed 'inexorable' link between a language and a culture. Due to the multitude of users and contexts of ELF communication the supposed language, culture and identity correlation, often conceived at the national level, appears simplistic and naïve. However, it is equally naïve to assume that ELF is a culturally and identity neutral form of communication. All communication involves participants, purposes, contexts and histories, none of which are 'neutral'. Thus, we need new approaches to understanding the relationship between language, culture and identity which are able to account for the multifarious and dynamic nature of ELF communication.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [260]-279) and index.

Intercultural communication and ELF -- Understanding culture through ELF -- Culture and identity through English as a lingua franca -- Re-examining intercultural communicative competence: intercultural awareness-- ELF and intercultural awareness: implications for English language teaching -- Putting it in practice: a study in ELF and ICA for language learners in Thailand.

The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) on a global scale forces a reassessment of our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity in intercultural communication.

MTU Cork Module LANG8022- Supplementary reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Will Baker, University of Southampton, UK