The use of a reduced verbal system as ELF English as a lingua franca in the sciences does not appear to be a perfectly adequate way of expressing cultural identities. A modern society should instead enforce, through instruction, the understanding of several national cultural scripts, one’s own and others, and the understanding of the way communication and languages works. Multilingualism and in...

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 curre...

Abstract This article explores similarities between English as a lingua franca (ELF) and International Sign (IS), two phenomena which in the last decades have been subject to increasing, albeit independent, linguistic research. In contrast spoken intercultural communication, often represents shared resource that speakers from different linguacultural backgrounds draw on, visual-gestural modalit...

During the course of the last century, English has gained acceptance as the lingua franca in science. A transition from a ‘national’ science model to a ‘transnational’ model – in which English is used – has been described in Spain and other non-English-speaking countries. This new model is reinforced in Spain through science policy measures oriented to enhance international visibility. However,...

writing projects are socially-situated identities. the rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities. through analyzing metadiscourse strategies employment in persian and english (as the lingua franca of academic discourse community) research articles, this study makes an attempt to find out whether persian native writers take on the...