Language Change

Anna Mauranen is Professor and Research Director at the University of Helsinki, and President of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Her research includes ELF, academic discourses, corpus linguistics, translation, and modelling speech. She is co-editor of Applied Linguistics, and Changing English (2017), and author of Exploring ELF (2012) and Linear Unit Grammar (2006). Svetlana Vetchinnikova is University Lecturer in the Department of Languages, University of Helsinki. Her current interests include chunking at different levels of language organization, individual variation and modelling language as a complex system. She is author of Phraseology and the Advanced Language Learner (2019) and co-editor of Changing English (2017).

• Introduction. Dynamics of change from different perspectives and on different scales Anna Mauranen and Svetlana Vetchinnikova; Part I. Pooling Perspectives: Introduction Anna Mauranen; 1. Calling Englishes as complex dynamic systems: diffusion and restructuring Edgar W. Schneider; 2. English as a lingua franca in the context of a sociolinguistic typology of contact languages William Croft; 3. How writing changes language Ewa Dąbrowska; 4. ELF and translation as language contact Anna Mauranen; 5. Present-day standard English: whose language was it anyway? Terttu Nevalainen; 6. ELF and the study of sociolinguistic change Janus Mortensen; Part II. Zooming in on ELF: Introduction Svetlana Vetchinnikova; 7. ELF, language change and social networks: evidence from real-time social media data Mikko Laitinen and Jonas Lundberg; 8. ELF and language change at the individual level Svetlana Vetchinnikova and Turo Hiltunen; 9. Are multilinguals the better academic ELF users? Evidence from a questionnaire study measuring self-assessed proficiencies Peter Siemund and Jessica Terese Mueller; 10. The role of co-textual and contextual cues for intelligibility in ELF interactions Veronika Thir; 11. Exploring the pragmatics of computer-mediated English as a lingua franca communication: multimodal and multilingual practices Rino Bosso; 12. Development of shared multilingual resources in ELF dyadic interaction: a longitudinal case study Aki Siegel; 13. The role of translanguaging in ELF advice sessions for asylum seekers Alessia Cogo.

'What can studies of English as a lingua franca (ELF) contribute to world Englishes research, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and language evolution? This collection – comprising both theoretical position papers and empirical case studies – marks an impressive starting point for the necessary dialogue across sub-disciplines.' Christian Mair, University of Freiburg