Lingua Franca is a pidgin‚ a trade language used by numerous language communities around the Mediterranean‚ to communicate with others whose language they did not speak. It is‚ in fact‚ the mother of all pidgins‚ seemingly in use since the Middle Ages and surviving until the nineteenth century‚ when it disappeared with hardly a trace‚ probably under the onslaught of the triumphant French language‚ leaving only a few anecdotal quotations in the writings of travelers or observers‚ an imperfect French/Lingua
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term Lingua Franca A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue‚ in particular when it is a third language‚ distinct from both mother tongues. Justify the use of English language as a Lingua Franca English has become a global lingua franca‚ a unique linguistic situation in world history. As there is no discernible coercion‚ it seems the world has freely chosen English. In past times the world has had other lingua francae;
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Title: English as the lingua franca Translation involves the very idea of transformation of thoughts into language which is the most unifying factor among human communities. In our multilingual‚ multicultural‚ transnational world‚ therefore‚ there is a need of a common global lingual space. English‚ being the globally acknowledged language is often associated with certain hegemonic domination over other indigenous languages of the world. Though there were some issues of power struggles and politics
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English as a lingua franca I am going to tell you something about English as a lingua franca. I will be talking about 3 different subjects concerning English as a lingua franca and a lingua franca in common. First of all I will tell you something about the purpose of a lingua franca‚ or in other words; What is a lingua franca. Secondly I will give some reasons why a lingua franca should be or might be introduced. Then last but not least I will mention some of the problem which might occur when you’re
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Asian Students‚ Critical Thinking and English as an Academic Lingua Franca‚ This research was conducted by Michael Paton PHD of the University of Sydney. The abstract of this research was to compare the critical thinking of students from Asian countries in comparison to those of Western countries. Many experts such as Kutleieh and Egege (2003). Atkinson (2007) have argued that Asian Critical thinking skills are not compatible with learning in an English native speaking country. In contrast other
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English as a Lingua Franca. Who owns English today? Pavlína Bílá Semester: 1 Academic Year: 2013 The role of English language has already achieved not only the position as a native language‚ but it has also gained the status of global lingua franca and its power is growing day by day. With today globalized world‚ modern internet era‚ huge expansion of tourism and international trade in all over the world‚ it has appeared the need for common language which can be used
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ENGLISH AS LINGUA FRANCA Do you know that of all the languages in the world‚ English is the most entertaining and pleasurable language? The amusement of English expounds why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. When we explore in more detail of its paradoxes‚ we may later discover that quicksand can work slowly‚ boxing rings are square and guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor it is a pig. If we hurled back‚ English has been widely dispersed around the
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Why English as a Lingua Franca? Manfred Görlach‚ a linguist from Germany‚ says that structure and lexicon are important items in a language. The simpler the structure the more people like to use the language. Compared to Latin‚ for instance‚ English is much simpler. Latin has accusative‚ dative‚ genitive‚ feminine‚ masculine‚ or neuter‚ but English does not have such features. Moreover‚ the more vocabulary a language has the better the language. It means that the language is flexible with any other
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English is the language that you can’t ignore in a modern world. It is linked every where to business education and communication and other various things. The English language is and will be important in a global society. The people need it in every day life all around the world. This is the main reason why English is the most widely spoken and the most commonly studied language in the world. This is because during the long period of time it had become the main source of communication between people
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Should the world RELY on English as a lingua franca? Pierre Frath CIRLEP‚ Department of English‚ Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France) pierre.frath@univ-reims.fr ABSTRACT English has become a global lingua franca‚ a unique linguistic situation in world history. As there is no discernible coercion‚ it seems the world has freely chosen English and yet if for example we look at European linguistic policies‚ the
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