Understanding English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer
Oxford Applied Linguistics
A complete introduction to the theoretical nature and practical implications of English used as a lingua franca. Explore the theories and principles of English as a Lingua Franca with leading expert Barbara Seidlhofer
BARBARA SEIDLHOFER
Understanding English as a Lingua Franca
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Acknowledgements
Over the years of writing this book, I have been fortunate in receiving help and encouragement from many friends and colleagues.
When I first put the idea for this book to Cristina Whitecross a decade ago, she saw the point immediately and she has given the project continuous support ever since. I have also greatly benefited from her expert editorial advice in getting this book into shape for publication. My thanks, too, to the OUP team, particularly Julia Bell and Ann Hunter, who sensitively shepherded the book through its last phase of copy-editing and production, and to Nora Dorn, who perceptively prepared the index.
Several readers have given me valuable feedback on the whole manuscript or parts of it and so helped me to improve the text. I would like to thank Janina Brutt-Griffler, Sandy McKay, Anne Burns, as well as an anonymous reviewer for their time and expertise. Jennifer Jenkins not only generously commented on the manuscript in its original and revised versions but has also been an ever-dependable source of information and encouragement, and a partner in spirited debates over many years. It has been a great pleasure to see Jennifer’s and my own research students getting to know each other; together with those of Anna Mauranen. A new generation of scholars including Martin Dewey, Alessia Cogo, Elina Ranta, Susanne Ehrenreich, Beyza Björkman, Jagdish Kaur, and several others are demonstrating that the study of ELF continues to thrive and to attract sharp and inquisitive minds.
Among the researchers who have made a particularly significant contribution to ELF studies are my colleagues here in Vienna, where they provide a highly inspiring and mutually supportive environment. Marie-Luise Pitzl, Angelika Breiteneder, and Stefan Majewski were in at the very beginning of the VOICE project, and they and the other �Voices’ – Theresa Klimpfinger, Ruth Osimk, and Michael Radeka – have been a pleasure to work with, both individually as researchers and as an incredible team, helped by a number of able assistants. Most of them have also given me constructive feedback on different chapters. Cornelia Hülmbauer, my co-researcher on the DYLAN project, as well as Kathri