Browsing NJES Volume 5, No. 2 (2006) by Title
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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 ...