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Publication details [#56705]

MacKenzie, Ian. 2012. English as a lingua franca in Europe: bilingualism and multicompetence. The International Journal of Multilingualism 9 (1) : 83–100.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language mixing | lingua franca | linguistic competence | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses the potential (especially as multicompetence in action) and the restrictions of language mixing by multilingual European speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF).