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Laughing at English: the lingua franca at the interface between local-interactional resistance and cultural-societal pressure

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This contribution explores the stances of speakers of Romance languages towards the use of English as a lingua franca in a business context. Grounding on an audio-visual corpus collected in a wine fair in France, the analysis focuses on three extracts where participants comment in a playful way (i.e. through laughing, joking and humorous enactments) upon the fact that they are not speaking English. Through a sequential and multimodal analysis, the study will highlight the participants’ ambivalent stance: on the one hand, through these playful practices they display a local resistance towards the mainstream language choice; on the other hand, these same practices reveal their vulnerability to the social pressure concerning the speaking of English.

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hal-03806653 , version 1 (07-10-2022)

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Vanessa Piccoli, Rosa Pugliese. Laughing at English: the lingua franca at the interface between local-interactional resistance and cultural-societal pressure. Language and Dialogue, 2022, ⟨10.1075/ld.00134.pic⟩. ⟨hal-03806653⟩
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