Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Travel blogs constitute a new platform where travelers can tell about their travel\nexperiences and share information and impressions with their readers. Most\ntravel blogs incorporate commenting capabilities, which enable social interaction\namong members of communities with shared traveling interests. English is most\noften used as a Lingua Franca, facilitating interaction among people with\ndifferent L1 backgrounds and transcending the native/non-native distinction.\nThe purpose of this research is to analyze the features of English as a Lingua\nFranca (ELF) interactions in travel blogs and explore some strategies used by\nparticipants in blog discussions to achieve shared understanding and show\nbelonging to an ELF community. The small corpus consists of 36 blog\ndiscussions taken from 12 blogs where the commenters belong to different L1\nbackgrounds. The corpus was analyzed qualitatively to determine whether some\nstrategies used in ELF interactions (make it normal, backchanneling, codeswitching,\nand metacomments) occur in travel blogs and, if so, how they\ncontribute to identity and community construction
Source: Zaguan (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Author: María José Luzón
Institution: Universidad de Zaragoza
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2465113931