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Publication details [#32576]
House, Juliane. 2003. English as a lingua franca: A threat to multilingualism? Journal of Sociolinguistics 7 (4) : 556–578. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
1360-6441
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues against the widespread assumption that English as a lingua franca threatens national languages and multilingualism, distinguishing between 'languages for communication' and 'languages for identification'.