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Publication details [#51340]
Seidlhofer, Barbara. 2009. Accommodation and the idiom principle in English as a Lingua Franca. Intercultural Pragmatics 6 (2) : 195–215. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that English as a lingua franca users' online co-construction of pro-tem idiomatic expressions serves both the cooperative function of communication and the territorial function of building shared affective space.