Lingua Franca

Mallette, Karla

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“…Echoing those arguments, relays take us back to the material practices through which languages (and theories) are constituted, a shift that challenges the ostensible stability of English, French, Turkish, Arabic, or any other language. Indeed, although it is fair to call English a lingua franca, we ought to remember the histories of franca itself, “a Romance borrowing of an Arabic borrowing of a Greek borrowing of a Latin word” (Mallette, 2014: 331). In other words, a lingua franca was a language of movement and communication, “always a foreign language, always someone else’s tongue: from the perspective of local populations, the language of the travelers; from the perspective of the sailors and merchants, it was our language, as spoken by them ” (ibid: 334, emphasis in the original).…”

Section: Relays; or Worlds Through Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trajectories of translation

Hammond,

Cook

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Translation has been a core concern for geographers, particularly in the context of our discipline’s ongoing debate about how to world Geography otherwise. Rather than seeing translation as simply an act of bridging pre-existing differences, this article conceptualizes translation as an act producing differences-in-relation. It traces four “trajectories of translation” that bring geographers’ discussions of translation into new configurations: (1) Topoglossia, foregrounding the linkage between place and language; (2) imbrication, a metaphor for thinking difference-in-relation; (3) relays, an alternative to the metaphor of the bridge; and (4) communities, defined not by self-identity but by their shared practice of translation.

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Section: Relays; or Worlds Through Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trajectories of translation

Hammond,

Cook

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…From a cultural perspective, the Mediterranean constitutes an area of strong interaction, leading some to place the emphasis on patterns of 'mutual intelligibility' (Catlos and Kinoshita, 2017). Indeed, the frequent exchange led for example to the emergence of the lingua franca, a simplified version of Italian with Arabic and Spanish influences that enabled communication and trade (Mallette, 2014). Finally, a distinctive strand takes the notion of environmental history seriously 5 and thinks the Mediterranean as a distinctive ecological system, where topographical features interact in historically-specific ways with human activity (Horden and Purcell, 2000).…”

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International Relations in/and The Middle Ages

López¹

2021

Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations

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“…Business requires a universal form of communication that can be applicable in more than one location, which makes English to be termed as the lingua franca of the business world. Lingua franca can be described as a language adopted as a common language by speakers whose native languages differ, which helps in establishing a common ground for communication (Mallette, 2014). In multinational business environments, there are lingual and cultural differences that may face people who want to conduct business from time to time, which must be met with a unifying factor such as common language.…”

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English as a Lingua Franca in Global Business: Balancing Efficiency and Cultural Sensitivity

Tan

2024

RSELTL

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This work focuses on English as an international business lingua franca in the realisation of effective international communication and collaboration. A globally integrated market has seemingly perceived English as an imperative medium in order to eliminate the barrier of language and play a facilitative role for multinational ventures; it adds an edge in organisational performance among diverse cultural landscapes. The dominance of English, on the other hand, also means that potential linguistic inequities might be bred, and the subtleties in the cultural differences might go on unnoticed. The study adopts a qualitative paradigm, through which it uses structured questionnaires to elicit insights with respect to the pros and cons associated with using English as the second language in business environments. Participants mentioned that English facilitates international transactions, helps in bringing the unity of diversified groups in terms of language, and supports the strategies of worldwide businesses. Critics say that a cavalier attitude towards non-native speakers will dominate and crop up as cultural insensitivity. Therefore, the findings in this article highlight that while English as a Lingua Franca may have innumerable advantages in worldwide business communication, there does always need to be a sense of balance and a certain amount of appreciation for diversity in languages to foster an inclusive global business environment.

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Lingua Franca

Cited by 10 publications

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Trajectories of translation

Trajectories of translation

International Relations in/and The Middle Ages

English as a Lingua Franca in Global Business: Balancing Efficiency and Cultural Sensitivity

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