English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use
of English as a common language for communication between speakers
whose first language is not English. Providing a unique and
original perspective on this subject, Istvan Kecskes explains the
language behaviour of ELF speakers, through the lens of Gricean
pragmatics. This study successfully brings together the main
viewpoints of the Gricean paradigm into ELF research, to discuss
and better understand the nature of ELF interactions, as well as
explaining how Gricean pragmatics can benefit from investigating
and analysing ELF. Each chapter presents intriguing ideas that put
existing knowledge into a new perspective, such as interactional
competence, intention, implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics
interface, and modality. New terms and viewpoints such as language
use mode, deliberate creativity, temporary extension of the system,
emergent common ground and modality continuum are introduced into
the ELF debate.
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