Publications

Publication details [#54805]

Haberland, Hartmut. 2011. Ownership and maintenance of a language in transnational use: Should we leave our lingua franca alone? Journal of Pragmatics 43 (4) : 937–949.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

international context | language and culture | language maintenance | language revival | lingua franca

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that in discussing norms for international English (EFL), one has to distinguish an ownership and a maintenance (or cultivation) discourse, and introduces some ideas from public goods theory that could contribute to an appreciation of international English.