English as an Academic Lingua Franca. An Investigation of Form and Communicative Effectiveness

279 Pages·2016·6.63 MB·English

by  Bjӧrkman B.

English as an Academic Lingua Franca
Developments in English
as a Lingua Franca 3
Editors
Jennifer Jenkins
Will Baker
De Gruyter Mouton
English as an Academic
Lingua Franca
An Investigation of Form
and Communicative Effectiveness
By
Beyza Björkman
De Gruyter Mouton
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To Ella and Mikael, my wonderful family

Acknowledgments

This monograph takes as its basis my PhD project that I completed in June
2010. During the production of this manuscript, I have received invaluable
help from many colleagues, friends, and family.
First of all, I would like to thank De Gruyter Mouton for seeing the im-
portance of the topic and investing in this monograph. Birgit Sievert, Julie
Miess and Angelika Hermann patiently answered every question I had. The
editors Professor Jennifer Jenkins and Dr. Will Baker have helped me
shape this manuscript to the monograph you have before you today. Need-
less to say, any remaining errors are mine. I am especially grateful to Jen-
nifer Jenkins for being so supportive and helpful from the very early stages
of this project, when this book was only an idea.
The research project that forms the basis of this book was almost exclu-
sively financed by the language unit at the Technical Institute despite all
the financial hardships, and I am eternally grateful for this support. I will
not be able to mention any names here for purposes of anonymity, but I am
indebted to my colleagues for their hard work that generated the resources
for this project as well as their never-ending encouragement. I am also
grateful to the English Department at Stockholm University where I was a
doctoral student for letting me work on a topic that I knew was very im-
portant and for providing financial support for the final stages of the pro-
ject. I would also like to thank my colleagues at Roskilde University for the
feedback and help during my post-doc stay in Denmark.
I have benefited greatly from discussions with my PhD supervisor Pro-
fessor Philip Shaw, who has been extremely generous with truly inspiring
discussions and invaluable advice. Special thanks go to Professor Nils-
Lennart Johannesson for creating special characters so I could be true to my
Early Modern English source. Thanks also go to Christina Alm-Arvius,
Britt Erman, Rebecca Hincks, Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Elizabeth Keller,
Andy Kirkpatrick, Maria Kuteeva, Margareta Lewis, Magnus Ljung, Hans
Malmström, Gunnel Melchers, Alan McMillion, David Minugh, Jan Peder-
sen, Erik Smitterberg and Annelie Ädel. I have learned so much from them.
There are other colleagues who have helped me with feedback and encour-
agement. I cannot help but mention John Airey, Anne Kari Bjørge, Gibson
Ferguson, Gregory Garretson, Rachel Giora, Hartmut Haberland, Spencer
Hazel, Glenn Ole Hellekjær, Jennifer Jenkins, Anna Mauranen, Janus
Mortensen, Diane Pecorari, Elina Ranta, John M. Swales and Hedda Söder-
viii Acknowledgments
lundh. I must thank Jennifer Jenkins, Anna Mauranen and Barbara Seidlho-
fer separately for paving the way for numerous studies on ELF, for being
so supportive to us new ELF researchers, and for being so generous with
their expertise.
And finally my family whom I love tremendously. It is to you that I owe
everything. I have produced this monograph while taking care of my baby
girl Ella. I am deeply grateful to my husband Mikael for his sunny smile,
never-ending patience and encouragement, and for shouldering so much of
the household responsibilities. Without his help, I would not have been able
to complete this book. And our sunshine Ella… Thanks for coming into
my life and showing me what really matters. I dedicate this book to you
both.

Earlier versions of some of the text in this monograph, and some of my
thoughts and arguments, have appeared in the following papers that I have
produced. I am grateful to the publishers and editors below for permitting
me to include them in this book:

2012 Questions in academic ELF interaction. Journal of English as a Lin-
gua Franca 1 (1): 93–119.
2012 Investigating English as a lingua franca in applied science education:
Aims, methods and norms. In (Re-)Conceptualising LSP Research:
Methods and Aims, Linguistic Insights, Studies in Language and
Communication, Margrethe Petersen and Jan Engberg (eds.), 163–
187. Bern: Peter Lang.
2012 The grammar of English as a lingua franca. The Encyclopedia of
Applied Linguistics, (ed.). Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
2011 English as a lingua franca in higher education: Implications for EAP.
Ibérica 22: 79–100. Special Issue on EAP in Parallel language and
ELF Settings.
2011 Pragmatic strategies in English as an academic lingua franca: Ways
of achieving communicative effectiveness? Journal of Pragmatics
43(4): 950–964.
2010 So you think you can ELF: English as a lingua franca as the medium
of Instruction. Hermes 45: 77–99.
2010 Spoken lingua franca English at a Swedish technical university: An
investigation of form and communicative effectiveness. Unpublished
PhD thesis. Stockholm University, Department of English.
2009 From code to discourse in spoken ELF. In English as a Lingua
Franca: Studies and findings, Anna Mauranen, and Elina Ranta
(eds.), 225–254. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Acknowledgments ix
2009 English as a lingua franca at a Swedish technical university: An
effective medium? In Proceedings of the Annual BALEAP Confe-
rence: 'EAP in a Globalising World: English as an Academic Lingua
Franca‘. Whong, Melinda (Ed.), 11–19. Reading: Garnet Education.
2008 English as the lingua franca of engineering: The morphosyntax of
academic speech events. Nordic Journal of English Studies 7(3):
103–122.
2008 'So where we are': Spoken lingua franca English at a Swedish te-
chnical university”. English Today 24 (2): 11–17. Reprinted with
permission from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Journals
Online.