Will Baker

Shadow Hunter

Claire Zion

In a world full of supermalls, feel-good drugs, and computer-guided traffic patterns, thirteen-year-old Ronald is kidnapped by a secretive cave-dwelling people, and the ruling government responds with military might. Reprint.

The use of English as a global lingua franca has given rise to new challenges and approaches in our understanding of language and communication. One area where ELF (English as a lingua franca) studies, both from an empirical and theoretical orientation, have the potential for significant developments is in our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity. ELF challenges traditional assumptions concerning the purposed 'inexorable' link between a language and a culture. Due to the multitude of users and contexts of ELF communication the supposed language, culture and identity correlation, often conceived at the national level, appears simplistic and naïve. However, it is equally naïve to assume that ELF is a culturally and identity neutral form of communication. All communication involves participants, purposes, contexts and histories, none of which are 'neutral'. Thus, we need new approaches to understanding the relationship between language, culture and identity which are able to account for the multifarious and dynamic nature of ELF communication.

Rethinking Concepts and Goals in Intercultural Communication

Culture and Identity through English as a Lingua Franca

What does an arrogant businessman, his best friend, a retired gentleman and his dog, a spirit guide, a super monk, a ruffian, a computer genius, and two of the most powerful men on the planet all have to do with each other? They all hold the fate of the world in their hands. As a portal of non-time approaches for the spiritual mass enlightenment of the planet to occur, all these characters unknowingly become close to gaining reality control; all the suppressed esoteric knowledge and universal laws to higher consciousness are condensed into one mind-shattering and revised edition that could wreak havoc upon the world—or save it and quicken the process. Spanning across time and inter-dimensional worlds, Wheeler Dealer is a humorous yet dark novel where fiction and fact weave together, and unwitting characters make choices which, unknown to them, will determine whether the world goes full speed ahead into the prophecy of the Golden Age. Or will they become the spanners in the spokes of the wheel, forcing the world to hold back a gear at its most crucial time in eons?

Wheeler Dealer

In 2131, the remnants of post-nuclear holocaust civilization living in the highly controlled Northern Hemisphere set out to rid Earth of the Ginks, the offspring of chimps and humans, who live in the wastelands of the South. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

Jacques Prévert

Jennifer Jenkins

Martin Dewey

The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the main theories, concepts, contexts and applications of this rapidly developing field of study. Including 47 state-of-the art chapters from leading international scholars, the handbook covers key concepts, regional spread, linguistic features and communication processes, domains and functions, ELF in academia, ELF and pedagogy and future trends. This handbook is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research of English as a lingua franca and world/global Englishes more broadly, within English language, applied linguistics, and education.

Will Baker

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