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Contents
PART I
Conceptualising and positioning ELF
Anna Mauranen
2 English as a lingua franca and intercultural communication
Will Baker
3 Communities of practice and English as a lingua franca
Susanne Ehrenreich
Diane Larsen-Freeman
5 English language teaching: pedagogic reconnection with the social dimension
Constant Leung and Jo Lewkowicz
6 Cognitive perspectives on English as a lingua franca
Christopher J. Hall
7 Standard English and the dynamics of ELF variation
Barbara Seidlhofer
8 Historical perspectives on ELF
H.G. Widdowson
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PART II
The regional spread of ELF
Tamah Sherman
10 English as a lingua franca in the Gulf Cooperation Council states
Nuha Alharbi
11 The development of English as a lingua franca in ASEAN
Andy Kirkpatrick
12 Chinese English as a lingua franca: an ideological inquiry
Ying Wang
James F. D’Angelo
14 ELF in Brazil: recent developments and further directions
Telma Gimenez, Michele Salles El Kadri and Luciana Cabrini Simões Calvo
15 Is English the lingua franca of South Africa?
Christa van der Walt and Rinelle Evans
PART III
ELF characteristics and processes
Ruth Osimk-Teasdale
Alessia Cogo and Juliane House
18 Pronunciation and miscommunication in ELF interactions: an analysis of initial clusters
Ishamina Athirah Gardiner and David Deterding
19 Creativity, idioms and metaphorical language in ELF
Marie-Luise Pitzl
Elina Ranta
Beyza Björkman
Niina Hynninen and Anna Solin
23 Uncooperative lingua franca encounters
Christopher Jenks
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PART IV
Contemporary domains and functions
24 Translingual practice and ELF
Daisuke Kimura and Suresh Canagarajah
25 ELF in the domain of business—BELF: what does the B stand for?
Anne Kankaanranta and Leena Louhiala-Salminen
Kaisa S. Pietikäinen
27 Humour in ELF interaction: a powerful, multifunctional resource in relational practice
Patricia Pullin
28 ELF in electronically mediated intercultural communication
Chittima Sangiamchit
Alessia Cogo
30 ELF and translation/interpreting
Michaela Albl-Mikasa
31 Beyond monolingualism in higher education: a language policy account
Ute Smit
32 EMI in higher education: an ELF perspective
Kumiko Murata and Masakazu Iino
33 Written academic English as a lingua franca
Bruce Horner
34 Transforming higher education language and literacy policies: the contribution of ELF
Ursula Wingate
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PART VI
ELF, policy and pedagogy
Martin Dewey and Laura Patsko
36 ELF-aware teaching, learning and teacher development
Nicos Sifakis and Yasemin Bayyurt
37 ELF and ELT teaching materials
Nicola Galloway
38 ELF and Content and Language Integrated Learning
Julia Hüttner
39 ELT and ELF in the East Asian contexts
Ayako Suzuki, Haibo Liu and Melissa H. Yu
Sue Wright and Lin Zheng
41 English language teachers and ELF
Enric Llurda
PART VII
ELF into the future: trends, debates, predictions
42 English as a lingua franca: changing ‘attitudes’
Robert Baird and Mariko Baird
Maria Grazia Guido
44 Global languages and lingua franca communication
Sonia Morán Panero
45 Language assessment: the challenge of ELF
Luke Harding and Tim McNamara
46 ELF and critical language testing
Elana Shohamy
47 The future of English as a lingua franca?
Jennifer Jenkins