Papers by Valeria Franceschi
This paper focuses on ELF use in computer-mediated-communication, and specifically on language ch... more This paper focuses on ELF use in computer-mediated-communication, and specifically on language choice and on the exploitation of the users’ plurilingual repertoires as a communicative strategy in Web 2.0 social spaces. Through data drawn from personal blogs and fan fiction texts, it will be exemplified how adapting English to ELF contexts and engaging in language alternation practices such as code-switching and polylingual languaging or heteroglossia may relate to audience design strategies in these online spaces.
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Papers by Valeria Franceschi