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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' ...
Efficiency in ELF Communication: From Pragmatic Motives to Lexico-grammatical Innovation
(2006-12)
The considerable demographic shift in the use of English worldwide, with the effect that L2 speakers outnumber L1 speakers, particularly as typified in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication, is now widely acknowledged ...
A Rich Domain of ELF - the ELFA Corpus of Academic Discourse
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)
The academic field has used English as a lingua franca widely for a long time, and is a good choice for an ELF corpus. It is useful to restrict the scope of exploratory research in one way or another, mode and domain ...
Exploring Corporate Websites as a Setting for ELF Research: The Case of Ostrobothnian Export Companies
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)
According to Jennifer Jenkins (2004: 63), the essential distinction between the use of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and that as a lingua franca (ELF) lies in their interlocutors' native language. Speakers (themselves ...
The 'Attractive' Progressive - Why use the -ing Form in English as a Lingua Franca?
(2006-12)
In SLA literature, the 'extended' use of the progressive in L2 English production has often been considered a 'problem'. The studies have been based on elicited data and explanations for such use have ranged from first ...
Introduction
(2006-09-14)
This is an introductory article to the NJES Special Issue on Metaphors.
Justified pride? Metaphors of the word pride in English language corpora, 1418–1991
(Gothenburg University, 2006-09)
This article deals with the words pride, proud and proudly in a cognitive linguistic framework, addressing the questions: (1) What causes pride? (2) Which other concepts are associated with pride? (3) What are people’s ...