Publication details
English as the Lingua Franca of the Modern World: New Challenges for Academia: Fifth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
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| Description | The publication contains abstracts from the 5th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English, held in Brno on 17-18 September 2012 under the title “English as the Lingua Franca of the Modern World: New Challenges for Academia”. It is a supplementary material for the linguistic conference organised by the Department of English Language and Literature of the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. The book of abstracts includes over six dozen abstracts of papers presented by participants in the international conference, focusing on the role of English as an international language of communication, particularly in science, research and education, and on the related generally linguistic, discursive, genre, pragmatic, cultural, sociological, etc. aspects. Some abstracts are closely linked to the topics of two workshops organised within the framework of the conference, addressing English as the lingua franca and Academic English. |