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Publication details [#50033]

Seidlhofer, Barbara, Angelika Breiteneder and Marie-Luise Pitzl. 2006. English as a lingua franca in Europe: challenges for applied linguistics. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 26 : 3–34.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

applied linguistics | communicative attempt | language status | language use | lingua franca

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study shows how European users of English as a lingua franca exploit the language's intrinsic possibilities to reach their own communicative goals. It also discusses how the emergent English as a lingua franca challenges different domains of applied linguistics.