Crucial to the line of enquiry introduced in this article is the notion of ELF as ‘language authentication’, which implies an appropriation of the English language according to its non-native users’ L1 parameters, and which justifies the case for the existence of ELF variability, depending on the particular groups of users from different lingua-cultural backgrounds who ‘authenticate’ English according to their own diverse native cognitive-semantic, syntactic, pragmatic and specialized-discourse parameters. Such a notion represents a challenge, on the one hand, to the view of ENL as the one and only ‘authentic variety of English’ to be used in every context of cross-cultural interaction and, on the other, to the widespread view of ELF as a unique and shared ‘international variety’ of English for efficient and economical communication in everyday interactions and specialized transactions – which is not expected to be ‘actively appropriated’ to the non-native speakers’ own lingua-cultural background, but rather to be ‘passively learnt’ by them as a ‘foreign language’ (as they do with ENL).

Introduction. English as a Lingua Franca: Theory and Practice

GUIDO, Maria Grazia;
2014-01-01

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Crucial to the line of enquiry introduced in this article is the notion of ELF as ‘language authentication’, which implies an appropriation of the English language according to its non-native users’ L1 parameters, and which justifies the case for the existence of ELF variability, depending on the particular groups of users from different lingua-cultural backgrounds who ‘authenticate’ English according to their own diverse native cognitive-semantic, syntactic, pragmatic and specialized-discourse parameters. Such a notion represents a challenge, on the one hand, to the view of ENL as the one and only ‘authentic variety of English’ to be used in every context of cross-cultural interaction and, on the other, to the widespread view of ELF as a unique and shared ‘international variety’ of English for efficient and economical communication in everyday interactions and specialized transactions – which is not expected to be ‘actively appropriated’ to the non-native speakers’ own lingua-cultural background, but rather to be ‘passively learnt’ by them as a ‘foreign language’ (as they do with ENL).
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