Browsing NJES Volume 5, No. 2 (2006) by Title
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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' ... -
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 ... -
VOICE Recording - Methodological Challenges in the Compilation of a Corpus of Spoken ELF
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English, aims to provide a general basis for analyses of English as a lingua franca (ELF) talk on all linguistic levels. This paper discusses criteria that have to be fulfilled ... -
“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 ...