English as a Social Media Lingua Franca among Georgian Social Media Users
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The present article examines the status of English as a social media Lingua Franca based on Georgian users. purpose research is to identify how dominant and frequent usage in Georgia. It also includes respondents’ attitude towards change, their readiness accept it proper understanding neologisms established media. diachronic overview dominance different languages language. In order obtain current linguistic image media, descriptive was conducted, data collected processed answers Google form questionnaire, which included 15 questions. light study, apparent that majority respondents (197) agree main language for communication apart from native
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International journal of linguistics, literature and translation
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2617-0299', '2708-0099']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.18