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Towards an acceptance of the ideology of English as a lingua franca in Hong Kong?

An examination of the myriad ideologies underpinning the perceptions of English within the complex local language ideological landscape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2022

Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
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English as a lingua franca (ELF) is now the most extensive sociolinguistic use of English around the world (Jenkins, 2015). As a widespread language phenomenon, ELF serves as ‘a “contact language” between persons who share neither a common native tongue nor a common (national) culture and for whom English is the chosen foreign language of communication’ (Firth, 1996: 240). More specifically, ELF refers to communication in English between speakers from different first language (L1) backgrounds (Mauranen, 2012; Seidlhofer, 2011). Instead of being a single variety of English, ELF is also conceptualized as a set of practices involving translingual uses of English (Jenkins, 2015; Seidlhofer, 2017).

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English Today , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 61 - 67
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