ENGLISH AS А LINGUA FRANCA IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
Journal Title: Записки з романо-германської філології - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The article investigates the English language, functioning as a lingua franca, in a modern multicultural and polyethnic universe in cross-cultural communication across the extrapolation of the secondary varieties of the given lingual system. The paper discusses history and meaning of the term “lingua franca”, characterizes its various definitions, describes the role, played by English, as an intermediary language in the distribution areas of the secondary varieties in contemporary community. The study also discusses functioning of lingua franca as a means of communication within multicultural ethnic communities. As a sociolinguistic term “lingua franca” does not have a unified definition and represents a variety of interpretations: “any language of wider interethnic communication”; certain types of “contact languages” used in interethnic communication; “verbal means of interethnic communication.” Having analyzed the problematics, we consider that in the era of globalization the English language has the status of macrointermediary language by virtue of the fact that it not only plays an intermediary role as in the context of certain nations, ethnic groups, but also covers the entire world community and is a global, world, polyethnic and multicultural one.
Authors and Affiliations
O. V. Domnich
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP388793
- DOI -
- Views 96
- Downloads 0
FIGURES OF SUBSTITUTION RENDERING IN THE PROCESS OF LITERARY TRANSLATION
The article is devoted to identification and determination of various figures of substitution in the conversational style and transformations, used in their rendering into Ukrainian. The research has been done on the bas...
VERBALIZATION OF THE ENGLISH CONCEPT GENIUS IN APHORISMS
The article is dedicated to the investigation of the peculiarities of verbalization of the concept GENIUS in the English language, namely, consideration of the aphorisms with the component genius. According to the repres...
ENGLISH DENTAL TERMINOLOGY (SEMANTIC ASPECT)
The article deals with the study of dental terms in the English language. The final aim of the work is to study and analyze features of the given group of medical terms. The research has been done on the basis of several...
TEXT DECOMPRESSION WHILE TRANSLATING FROM ENGLISH INTO UKRAINIAN
The given article outlines the peculiarities of decompression in the process of translation from English into Ukrainian. The research has been done on the basis of the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald and...
KINESICS AS A PART OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
The article presents a review of the theoretical premises and main trends in the study of kinesics as a part of nonverbal communication. Main approaches to defining and study of the kineme – a unit of the system of parav...