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- Title
English: lingua franca or disenfranchising?
- Authors
FREGONESE, SARA
- Abstract
Conceiving academic publishing as a long-term process that often includes oral communication and knowledge exchange at academic conferences, this commentary offers a critical take on English as lingua franca. Contrarily to the historical use of lingua franca as a simplified system of transnational communication that facilitates the pragmatics of economic and cultural exchange, academic English is instead used vernacularly and becomes an excluding barrier. In the writing and peer review stages of publishing, the linguistic positionality of both authors and peer reviewers thus needs more reflection in order for academic English not to become once again part of a disenfranchising process.
- Subjects
LINGUA francas; ORAL communication; INFORMATION sharing; ACADEMIC conferences; ENGLISH language
- Publication
Fennia, 2017, Vol 195, Issue 2, p194
- ISSN
0015-0010
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11143/fennia.67662