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“Words are more or less superfluous”: the Case of more or less in Academic Lingua Franca English
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)
In the past fifty years, English has turned into the leading language of international communication. Despite its well-established status as a global lingua franca, there is a lack of descriptive research on how people ...
Demokrati på entreprenad. En fallstudie av demokratiutveckling i Västerås kommun
(Kommunforskning i Västsverige, 2006)
Om följderna av den stora nyordningen
(Kommunforskning i Västsverige, 2006)
English as a Lingua Franca: A New Variety in the New Expanding Circle?
(2006-12)
The traditional tripartite model of English world-wide has so far ignored one of the most important functions of English today, namely that of a lingua franca between non-native speakers. In integrating ELF into models ...
The Creative Use of Idioms in Advertising
(2006-09-14)
This paper is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms involved in the creative exploitation of idiomatic expressions in advertisements. In line with Grady et al. (1999), the analysis is based on the complementing theories ...
Electrifying Performances and Brains that Fuse: Metaphor and the Cognitive Function of Electricity
(2006-09-14)
In this paper, written within the framework of cognitive linguistics, metaphorical expressions involving electricity as a source domain are discussed. The majority of the expressions are from The Oxford English Dictionary, ...
REVIEW: Dypedah, Magne, Hilde Hasselgård and Berit Loken. 2006. Introducing English Grammar. Bergen: Fagbok forlaget.
(Gothenburg University, 2006-09)
Making English Their Own: The use of ELF among Students of English at the FUB
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)
This paper analyses the attitudes and motives of students studying English at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and suggests that changing opinions on national (US and UK) standards and the emergence of the 'New Europe' ...
Fra bydelsråd til lokaludvalg i København
(Kommunforskning i Västsverige, 2006)