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Publication details [#50034]

Wright, Sue. 2006. French as a lingua Franca. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 26 : 35–60.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

international context | language policy | language status | lingua franca

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores three vital misconceptions in the arguments put forward in the French governmental campaign to promote and defend French 'as a lingua Franca' in international settings.