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English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking Blogging Practices

:	Paola Vettorel
:	English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking Blogging Practices
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110393958
:	Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 124.20
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

:	378
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Paola Vettorel, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

	Acknowledgements	7
	List of illustrations	15
	List of tables	17
	Introduction	21
	Chapter 1. Internet worlds, languages, users	31
	1.2. English and the multilingual Internet	37
	1.3. Languages in blogs	44
	1.4. Wider network-ing and ELF	48
	1.5. Linguistic resources and English: global and local practices	51
	1.6. Virtual communities, communities of practice, networks of ELF users	56
	Chapter 2. Blogging worlds	63
	2.1. Web 2.0-based practices	63
	2.2. Blogs	65
	2.2.1. Characteristic blog features	67
	2.2.2. Motivations for blogging	71
	2.2.3. Spread of blogs	74
	2.2.4. Types of blogs	85
	2.2.5. Personal journals	90
	2.3. Blogs as communicatively interactive spaces	92
	2.4. Blogs as constellations of interconnected practices	96
	2.5. Conclusions	102
	Chapter 3. Language and Computer-Mediated Communication	105
	3.1. Language and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)	105
	3.1.1. “e-grammar”	108
	3.2. Approaches to Computer-Mediated Discourse (CMD) Analysis	111
	3.3. Language in blogs	114
	3.4. Conclusions	119
	Chapter 4. Bloggers as ELF users	121
	4.1. LiveJournal.com	121
	4.1.1. LJ Journals	122
	4.1.2. Interactivity and community practices on LJ	125
	4.1.3. LJ users	126
	4.1.4. Languages on LJ	129
	4.2. The Corpus - Methodology of selection	134
	4.2.1. Some methodological considerations	136
	4.2.2. The corpus: blogs characteristics	138
	4.2.3. The questionnaire survey: bloggers’ characteristics	143
	4.3. English as a Lingua Franca: theoretical framework and paradigm of research	148
	4.4. Research aims and methodology	154
	4.5. Summary and conclusions	157
	Chapter 5. Using ELF in wider networking: exploiting linguistic resources	159
	5.1. Processes of regularization, economy of expression and redundancy reduction	162
	5.1.1. Zero third person singular marking in present tense verbs (3sg Ø)	162
	5.1.2. This is/there is + plural	169
	5.1.3. Pluralization of uncountable nouns	170
	5.1.4. Regularization by analogy	171
	5.1.5. Non-marking of –s plural in nouns	172
	5.1.6. Interchangeable use of who/which	174
	5.1.7. Invariable tags	174
	5.1.8. Zero derivation	176
	5.1.9. Extension in use of verbs with high general meaning	178
	5.2. Increased explicitness	179
	5.2.1. Adding prepositions	179
	5.3. Several strategies at work: shift in use of definite and indefinite articles	182
	5.3.1. The definite article	183
	5.3.2. Indefinite articles	187
	5.4. Lexical creativity in ELF: exploiting the virtual language	189
	5.4.1. Lexical innovations – morphological (over)productivity and ELF	190
	5.4.2. Lexical innovations in the corpus data	195
	5.4.2.1. Prefixation	196
	5.4.2.2. Suffixation	201
	5.4.3. Blends	208
	5.4.4. Reanalysis	209
	5.4.5. Addition and reduction	210
	5.5. Discussion of findings	210
	Chapter 6. Exploiting and integrating plurilingual resources	215
	6.1. Multicompetence and ELF users	218
	6.1.1. Borrowings	220
	6.1.2. ELF and ‘expressing culture(s)’	223
	6.2. Appropriating and adapting idiomatic and fixed expressions	227
	6.3. Code-switching	235
	6.3.1. Code-switching in ELF	238
	6.3.2. Code-switching and web practices	242
	6.4. Code-switching in blogging practices	248
	6.4.1. Appealing for assistance	250
	6.4.2. Specifying an addressee	250
	6.4.3. Introducing another idea	255
	6.4.4. Signalling and sharing (lingua)cultural affiliations	257
	6.5. Discussion of findings	267
	Chapter 7. Learning, using and appropriating the language	271
	7.1. English “from above”, English “from below”	271
	7.2. English and ELF users	282
	7.2.1. Language learner, language user, language learner-user	283
	7.3. L2 learners, L2/ELF users and self-perceptions of proficiency and competence in English	285
	7.4. Language-aware ELF users	293
	7.5. Implications for ELT pedagogical practices	300
	7.6. Concluding remarks	310
	Conclusions	317
	Appendix A – Questionnaire	331
	References	335
	Index	373