Event overview
GoldLingS are the Goldsmiths Linguistics Seminars hosted by the Department of English and Comparative Literature. The third seminar of the series will be Dr Marie-Luise Pitzl.
This widespread use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), i.e. the use of ‘English’ among speakers the majority of whom have first languages other than English, raises many questions – for linguistic theories, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and pedagogy, to name but a few. One area of particular interest for ELF research is the description of synchronic linguistic variation and its relation to functional aspects of pragmatic language use. This talk explores creativity in ELF in relation to the use of idioms and metaphors in interactive speech. It reports on the findings of an extensive qualitative corpus linguistic study conducted on the basis of the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE), a one-million word corpus of ELF interactions. The lecture reviews some formal aspects of creativity and idiom variation in ELF. In particular, it highlights functional motivations and communicative effects that creative idioms and metaphors have in ELF interactions.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 Feb 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
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