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English as a lingua franca: myths and facts
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Salikoko S. Mufwene,
Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago. He works on language evolution, including language birth and death, the indigenization of English, and globalization and language vitality. His publications include
The Ecology of Language Evolution (CUP, 2001) andLanguage Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change (Continuum Press, 2008). He is also the editor of the book series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact. His website address is http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/.
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October 16, 2012
Published Online: 2012-10-16
Published in Print: 2012-09-13
©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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