The international business community sees English as a lingua franca.
Meaning of lingua franca in English
(Definition of lingua franca from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of lingua franca
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The questions below are meant to both provoke discussion and guide future research in teacher preparation in lingua franca settings.
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English tends to be the lingua franca in conversations between educated people not sharing the same language.
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It is of paramount importance, when constructing parameters for a lingua franca, that all of the speakers of the language are on equal footing.
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The difficulty of taking such steps returns us to the linked nature of lingua franca and power.
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To what extent, if any, are standards applicable to lingua franca contexts?
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On the contrary, it describes the diversity and appropriacy of use in specific local and lingua franca contexts of use.
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This great variety has impeded spoken communication among people from different parts of the country, but the written lingua franca provides an essential unity.
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The human rights framework is one such lingua franca that can both facilitate and broaden international bioethics discourse.
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I will also draw some implications for what we mean by 'competence' in lingua franca contexts.
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The distinctive feature is the hybrid nature of these languages which function mainly as a lingua franca (p. 56).
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A lingua franca by definition is not geographically restricted.
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Anecdotal evidence shows that the learning of the national lingua franca by dialect speakers was far from satisfactory.
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It is not just elites that learn and use this lingua franca.
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In the historical record of lingua franca spread, we can usually identify several causes.
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For many composers, leitmotifs had become the lingua franca of opera.
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