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Publication details [#54806]

Björkman, Beyza. 2011. Pragmatic strategies in English as an academic lingua franca: Ways of achieving communicative effectiveness? Journal of Pragmatics 43 (4) : 950–964.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | communicative efficiency | language use | lingua franca | pragmatic competence

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on digital recordings of lectures and student group-work sessions, this paper examines the role of pragmatic strategies in the communicative effectiveness of English as a lingua franca in Swedish higher education.