Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Lingua Franca Context

Mercedes Durham is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at Cardiff University. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language variation and change, English as a world language, dialects of English and the acquisition of variation.

• Acknowledgements 1. English as a Lingua Franca 2. Second Language Variation 3. English as a Lingua Franca in a Multilingual Context: Switzerland 4. Data 5. Methodology 6. Future 7. Relatives 8. Complementizers 9. Lexical Variation: Also, as well and too 10. Discussion 11. Conclusion References

This is a most interesting book and offers lots of new insights into language variation and change, the role of new technologies in the evolution of language use, new speech 'communities' of multilingual speakers and also further explorations of the relationship between SLA and sociolinguistics which add to those already in existence. In addition, there are interesting implications for language teaching and learning.