Prue Holmes & Fred Dervin 
The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca [EPUB ebook] 

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction                                                                                                  
Part I: The Interconnections and Inter-relationships between Interculturality and ELF

1. Karen Risager: Lingua Francas in a World of Migrations                                                                              

2. Richard Fay, Nicos Sifakis and Vally Lytra: Interculturalities of English as a Lingua Franca: International Communication and Multicultural Awareness in the Greek Context                        

3. Will Baker: Culture and Language in Intercultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca and English Language Teaching: Points of Convergence and Conflict                                                    

Part II: Grounding Conceptual Understandings of Interculturality in ELF Communication

4. Chris Jenks: Talking Cultural Identities into Being in ELF Interactions: An Investigation of International Postgraduate Students in the United Kingdom                                                                              

5. Anne Kari Bjørge: Conflict Talk and ELF Communities of Practice                                                           

6. Jagdish Kaur: Intercultural Misunderstanding Revisited: Cultural Difference as a (Non) Source of Misunderstanding in ELF Communication                                                                                                   

7. Tiina Räisänen: Finnish Engineers’ Trajectories of Socialization into Global Working Life: From Language Learners to BELF Users and the Emergence of A Finnish Way of Speaking English      

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

Part III: Commentary

John O’Regan: Intercultural Communication and the Possibility of English as a Lingua Franca  

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is Director of the TENSION research group (diversities and interculturality in education). Dervin also holds several distinguished and visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages on identity, the “intercultural” and mobility/migration (over 150 articles and 60 books). His latest books include (all 2022): Fragments in Interculturality: A Reflexive Approach (Springer); Supercriticality and Interculturality (with Tan, Springer); Interculturality in Teacher Education (Cambridge University Press).