ABSTRACT
This book systematically explores and discusses English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research methods frequently deployed by ELF researchers in analysing their data.
It mainly covers three different approaches: corpus-based, both written and spoken, conversation analytic and narrative approaches. In addition to exploring these different approaches to ELF data, the volume also introduces case studies that utilise them in analysing data in both academic and workplace settings, which facilitates not only the understanding of the ways in which research is conducted but also its findings. Furthermore, the book discusses theoretical underpinnings of ELF research and its recent development in its first part. It is comprehensive both in understanding theory and exploring research methods which can be deployed in conducting ELF research.
The book, therefore, will be of great interest and use for both ELF researchers and educators as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students who are about to embark on their ELF and ELF-related research, and also to those who are new to the field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
ELF research
part II|103 pages
Spoken and written corpora in ELF research
chapter 6|16 pages
Exploring diachronic changes in research articles from an ELF perspective
chapter 7|29 pages
Tracing the emergence of situational multilingual practices in a BELF meeting
chapter 9|15 pages
Interpersonal formulaic sequences in ELF academic lectures
part III|60 pages
Conversation analytic approaches to ELF interactions
chapter 11|18 pages
Analysing multilingual/lingua franca interactions using conversation analysis
part IV|57 pages
Narrative approaches in ELF research