"This volume explores the ambiguity of English as an academic lingua franca, focusing on the post-colonial university context in South Africa toward offering broader insights on ELF and EMI in the global South. The book adopts an intersectional approach to ethnicity and race, ge…
"This volume explores the ambiguity of English as an academic lingua franca, focusing on the post-colonial university context in South Africa toward offering broader insights on ELF and EMI in the global South. The book adopts an intersectional approach to ethnicity and race, ge…
Grounded in ethnography, this monograph explores the ambiguity of English as a lingua franca by focusing on identity politics of language and race in contemporary South Africa. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach which highlights how ways of speaking English constructs …
English is the world's lingua franca-the most widely spoken language in human history. And yet, as historian and linguist Nicholas Ostler persuasively argues, English will not only be displaced as the world's language in the not-distant future, it will be the last lingua franca,…
Examines the rise and fall of English as the most widely spoken language in human history and discusses which language will overtake its dominance as English-speaking nations are challenged by the rising wealth of Brazil, Russia, India and China.