English As An Academic Lingua Franca —— An Investigation of Form and Communicative Effectiveness

----- 作为学术用得上的英语：形式和交际的有效性的调查

ISBN: 9783110279146 出版年：2013 页码：278 Bjorkman, Beyza De Gruyter Mouton

As a result of globalization, higher education institutions throughout the world are adopting English for parts of their education. Higher education is becoming increasingly international and thus linguistically diverse, for educational, idealistic and financial reasons. This book presents a much-needed description of English as a lingua franca (ELF) from an international university setting and focuses on form and pragmatic issues, using authentic spoken data. It provides useful insights into how communicative effectiveness can be achieved in spoken lingua franca communication.