Description:
This series welcomes book proposals detailing innovative and cutting edge research and theorisation in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The purpose of the series is to offer a wide forum for work on ELF, including aspects such as descriptions and analyses of ELF; ELF use in a range of domains including education (primary, secondary and tertiary), business, tourism; conceptual works challenging current assumptions about English use and usage; works exploring the implications of ELF for English language policy, pedagogy, and practice; and ELF in relation to global multilingualism.
_x000D_Brief description: Marie-Luise Pitzl, University of Vienna, Austria
Review Quotes: "All in all, Pitzl's dense and informative work contributes a great deal to our current knowledge about how NNSEs employ idiom and metaphor in unconventional ways in face-to-face interaction." Fiona MacArthur in: Metaphor and the Social World 9:2, 2019, 285-292