8. The Local Purposes of a Global Language: English as an Intracultural Communicative Medium in China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction – English as a Lingua Franca and Interculturality: Beyond Orthodoxies 1
7. Part 1: The Interconnections and Inter-Relationships Between Interculturality and ELF
8. 1. Lingua Francas in a World of Migrations 33
9. 2. Interculturalities of English as a Lingua Franca: International Communication and Multicultural Awareness in the Greek Context 50
10. 3. Culture and Language in Intercultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca and English Language Teaching: Points of Convergence and Conflict 70
11. Part 2: Grounding Conceptual Understandings of Interculturality in ELF Communication
12. 4. Talking Cultural Identities into Being in ELF Interactions: An Investigation of International Postgraduate Students in the United Kingdom 93
13. 5. Conflict Talk and ELF Communities of Practice 114
14. 6. Intercultural Misunderstanding Revisited: Cultural Difference as a (non) Source of Misunderstanding in ELF Communication 134
15. 7. Finnish Engineers’ Trajectories of Socialisation into Global Working Life: From Language Learners to BELF Users and the Emergence of a Finnish Way of Speaking English 157
16. 8. The Local Purposes of a Global Language: English as an Intracultural Communicative Medium in China 180
17. Part 3: Commentary
18. 9. Intercultural Communication and the Possibility of English as a Lingua Franca 203
19. Index 218