Publications

Authors:

Vettorel, Paola

Title:

Bloggers as ELF users

Year:

2011

Type of item:

Contributo in atti di convegno

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in Atti di convegno

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Congresso:

Challenges for the 21st Century - 24th AIA Conference

Place:

Roma

Period:

1-3 ottobre 2009

Publisher:

Edizioni Q Roma

ISBN:

9788890396984

Page numbers:

513-521

Keyword:

ELF - English as a lingua franca; blogs; global spread of English

Short description of contents:

The global spread of English, particularly as a lingua franca, has fostered vivacious research over the last ten years. Employed in multilingual settings by users belonging to different linguacultures, ELF appears to be developing characteristics of its own at different levels, from phonology to lexico-grammar and pragmatics. English is increasingly used also as the lingua franca in the internet, and blogs in particular have become an important self-expression and interaction place for younger generations, who communicate in English in the international blogosphere. This paper investigates the use of zero 3rd person –s marking in the present tense as an ELF feature, within a corpus of blogs produced by Italian teenagers and young adults. The findings of my investigation appear in line with current ELF research, as bloggers’ instances of 3sg Ø, also with indefinite expressions and in concord with collective head nouns, can be interpreted an emerging feature.

Product ID:

72516

Handle IRIS:

11562/433745

Deposited On:

September 28, 2012

Last Modified:

November 4, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Vettorel, Paola, Bloggers as ELF users  in Challenges for the 21st Century. Dilemmas, Ambiguities, Directions. Papers from the 24th AIA Conference , Edizioni Q Roma , Proceedings of "Challenges for the 21st Century - 24th AIA Conference" , Roma , 1-3 ottobre 2009 , 2011 , pp. 513-521

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