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Laughing at English: the lingua franca at the interface between local-interactional resistance and cultural-societal pressure
- Source :
- Language and Dialogue, Language and Dialogue, 2022, ⟨10.1075/ld.00134.pic⟩, IADA Conference 2017, IADA Conference 2017, Oct 2017, Bologna, Italy, HAL
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2022.
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Abstract
- This contribution explores the stances of speakers of Romance languages towards the use of English as a lingua franca in a business context. Grounding on an audio-visual corpus collected in a wine fair in France, the analysis focuses on three extracts where participants comment in a playful way (i.e. through laughing, joking and humorous enactments) upon the fact that they are not speaking English. Through a sequential and multimodal analysis, the study will highlight the participants’ ambivalent stance: on the one hand, through these playful practices they display a local resistance towards the mainstream language choice; on the other hand, these same practices reveal their vulnerability to the social pressure concerning the speaking of English.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22104119
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Language and Dialogue, Language and Dialogue, 2022, ⟨10.1075/ld.00134.pic⟩, IADA Conference 2017, IADA Conference 2017, Oct 2017, Bologna, Italy, HAL
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8f8e7ae116c05921cf87d33d83ecc074