Conceptualising

and positioning
English as a
lingua Franca
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Hello!
Jaqueline Mendonça
Julia Eduarda Werle
Linguística Aplicada à Língua
Estrangeira
Languages - 3° grade
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What is Lingua
Franca?
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“The term lingua franca is

normally used to mean a
contact language, that is, a
vehicular language between
speakers who do not share a
first language.”
Anna Mauranen
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The definition of ELF

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ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA

❏ Does not have a defined

unanimous concept
❏ It is not a just a contact language
❏ It is not a variety
❏ The meaning of speech is
construtc in practice
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“ The significance of ELF transcends

the contact of any particular individual
or group with English. ELF is not just a
contact language where English is a
domestic language or otherwise
especially salient in a given
community, but a non-local lingua
franca, the means of communicating
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perspectives

macro meso micro

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Elf from the macro perspective

“A macro-social ❏ Similects: what

perspective on is it?
English as a ❏ ELF it is the
lingua franca contact
involves two between
central domains: differents
the linguistic and
similects
the societal.”
❏ Macro-social
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Speech Community x Community of

Practice

Sedentary: largely local, Communication

monolingual and non- ephemeral and takes
mobile place in transient
encounters
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Elf from the meso perspective

“The meso,
or micro-
social, view
on ELF is
concerned
with
language
use in
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English books are boring?

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Elf from the micro perspective

“The
cognitive
and the
interactional
are closely
intertwined.
Individual
cognition is
strikingly
attuned to
intersubjecti
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Let’s review some concepts

Perspectives of ELF

What is lingua franca? It Macro - uses of the

is form of communication language in society.
between people of any
nationality, anywhere in Meso - uses between
the world. people in social
interaction.

Micro- individual. The

cognitive and the
interactional are closely
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References
❏ Gimenez, Telma. Inglês como língua franca:
desenvolvimentos recentes.Available in:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982015000300593 .
Acesso em: 09 MAR. 2020.
❏ Mauranen, Anna. Conceptualising ELF. In: Jenkins,
Jennifer; baker, Will; Dewey, Martin(org). The
Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua
Franca. 1st edition. NEW YORK: Routledge, 2018. P.
7-24.
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Thanks!
Any questions?