Anna Mauranen
Biographic Data
| ID | 199870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Mauranen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Mauranen |
| SIGNATURE | MAURANEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7154-9530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Corpus Analysis of English as a Lingua Franca
English as a lingua franca (ELF) is a complex contact language, which accounts for the most widespread use of English in today's global communication. Like contact languages in general, ELF is used when speakers do not share a first language. It is neither codified nor regulated but emerges in encounters between multilingual speakers. Research seeks to uncover how English gets shaped and negotiated in such multilingually based communication. The …
Linear Unit Grammar—A Real‐Time Grammar
The Linear Unit Grammar (LUG) seeks to bridge the gap between ongoing speech and conventional grammatical analysis. In other words, it closes the gap between the linearity, or temporal dynamics, of discourse and the hierarchy of grammar. It seeks to capture the listener's experience of speech segmentation and analyses this in terms of a theoretical model which can also feed into a fine‐tuned analysis by more traditional grammars. LUG consists of …
Chunking up speech in real time: Linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints
There have been some suggestions in linguistics and cognitive science that humans process continuous speech by routinely chunking it up into smaller units. The nature of the process is open to debate, which is complicated by the apparent existence of two entirely different chunking processes, both of which seem to be warranted by the limitations of working memory. To overcome them, humans seem to both combine items into larger units for future re…
Continuous speech segmentation by L1 and L2 speakers of English: The role of syntactic and prosodic cues
We investigated how native and fluent users of English segment continuous speech and to what extent they use sound-related and structure-related cues. As suggested by the notion of multi-competence, L1 users are not seen as ideal models with perfect command of English, and L2 users not as lacking in competence. We wanted to see how language experience affects speech segmentation. We had participants listen to extracts of spontaneous spoken Englis…
Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: New Research, Approaches and Methodologies
Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: New Research, Approaches and Methodologies
Syntactic complexity in English as a lingua franca academic writing
Digital academic discourse: Texts and contexts
Second Language Acquisition, world Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a complex form of language contact, which is viewed from three key perspectives: the cognitive, the micro-social /interactional, and the macro-social. Each contributes crucially to the whole, and each frame has its own dynamics, while feeding into the other levels. Each operates in its particular time scale, resulting in multiple synchronous and asynchronous processes of change. As a contact language, ELF embod…
Closing Summary
Journal Article Closing Summary Get access Anna Mauranen Anna Mauranen University of Helsinki, Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 4, September 2015, Pages 488–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amv045 Published: 08 September 2015
Linear Unit Grammar
wellthatthatthatreallydoesthatdoesgetgetattheideasouncertaintyssometimesseenasthe extremecaseofadiffusesecondorderprobability
Metadiscourse: Diverse and Divided Perspectives
No abstract available.
Chunking in ELF: Expressions for managing interaction
This paper adopts a linear perspective on analyzing language, based on Sinclair and Mauranen's Linear Unit Grammar (John Benjamins, 2006), and complemented with insights on recurrent patterning discernible in corpus data. The focus is on elements of managing interaction and the way ELF speakers utilize them in co-constructing successful discourse. Interactive phraseological patterns range from very short and fixed expressions up to variable units…
Signaling and preventing misunderstanding in English as lingua franca communication
The default assumption in human communication is mutual intelligibility between interlocutors. Nevertheless, misunderstandings also occur, and languages have resources for managing these in communicative interaction. When speakers do not share a native language, misunderstandings are generally expected to arise more frequently than between native speakers of the same language. However, it is not clear that communication breakdown is more common a…
The Corpus of English as Lingua Franca in Academic Settings
political power of the United States, but the origins have ceased to be the prime motivation for the continued spread of the language. Most of its use today is by nonnative speakers (NNSs), and the number of people speaking it as a foreign or second language has surpassed the number of its native speakers (NSs) (about 80% of speakers of English are estimated to be bilingual users; see Crystal, 1997). As a consequence, voices in the English teachi…
Contrastive ESP rhetoric: Metatext in Finnish-English economics texts
Signaling and preventing misunderstanding in English as lingua franca communication
The default assumption in human communication is mutual intelligibility between interlocutors. Nevertheless, misunderstandings also occur, and languages have resources for managing these in communicative interaction. When speakers do not share a native language, misunderstandings are generally expected to arise more frequently than between native speakers of the same language. However, it is not clear that communication breakdown is more common a…
The Corpus of English as Lingua Franca in Academic Settings
political power of the United States, but the origins have ceased to be the prime motivation for the continued spread of the language. Most of its use today is by nonnative speakers (NNSs), and the number of people speaking it as a foreign or second language has surpassed the number of its native speakers (NSs) (about 80% of speakers of English are estimated to be bilingual users; see Crystal, 1997). As a consequence, voices in the English teachi…
Second Language Acquisition, world Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a complex form of language contact, which is viewed from three key perspectives: the cognitive, the micro-social /interactional, and the macro-social. Each contributes crucially to the whole, and each frame has its own dynamics, while feeding into the other levels. Each operates in its particular time scale, resulting in multiple synchronous and asynchronous processes of change. As a contact language, ELF embod…
Chunking in ELF: Expressions for managing interaction
This paper adopts a linear perspective on analyzing language, based on Sinclair and Mauranen's Linear Unit Grammar (John Benjamins, 2006), and complemented with insights on recurrent patterning discernible in corpus data. The focus is on elements of managing interaction and the way ELF speakers utilize them in co-constructing successful discourse. Interactive phraseological patterns range from very short and fixed expressions up to variable units…
Digital academic discourse: Texts and contexts
Contrastive ESP rhetoric: Metatext in Finnish-English economics texts
The Corpus of English as Lingua Franca in Academic Settings
political power of the United States, but the origins have ceased to be the prime motivation for the continued spread of the language. Most of its use today is by nonnative speakers (NNSs), and the number of people speaking it as a foreign or second language has surpassed the number of its native speakers (NSs) (about 80% of speakers of English are estimated to be bilingual users; see Crystal, 1997). As a consequence, voices in the English teachi…
Signaling and preventing misunderstanding in English as lingua franca communication
The default assumption in human communication is mutual intelligibility between interlocutors. Nevertheless, misunderstandings also occur, and languages have resources for managing these in communicative interaction. When speakers do not share a native language, misunderstandings are generally expected to arise more frequently than between native speakers of the same language. However, it is not clear that communication breakdown is more common a…
Chunking in ELF: Expressions for managing interaction
This paper adopts a linear perspective on analyzing language, based on Sinclair and Mauranen's Linear Unit Grammar (John Benjamins, 2006), and complemented with insights on recurrent patterning discernible in corpus data. The focus is on elements of managing interaction and the way ELF speakers utilize them in co-constructing successful discourse. Interactive phraseological patterns range from very short and fixed expressions up to variable units…
Metadiscourse: Diverse and Divided Perspectives
No abstract available.
Linear Unit Grammar
wellthatthatthatreallydoesthatdoesgetgetattheideasouncertaintyssometimesseenasthe extremecaseofadiffusesecondorderprobability
Closing Summary
Journal Article Closing Summary Get access Anna Mauranen Anna Mauranen University of Helsinki, Finland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 4, September 2015, Pages 488–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amv045 Published: 08 September 2015
Digital academic discourse: Texts and contexts
Second Language Acquisition, world Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a complex form of language contact, which is viewed from three key perspectives: the cognitive, the micro-social /interactional, and the macro-social. Each contributes crucially to the whole, and each frame has its own dynamics, while feeding into the other levels. Each operates in its particular time scale, resulting in multiple synchronous and asynchronous processes of change. As a contact language, ELF embod…
Syntactic complexity in English as a lingua franca academic writing
Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: New Research, Approaches and Methodologies
Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: New Research, Approaches and Methodologies
Chunking up speech in real time: Linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints
There have been some suggestions in linguistics and cognitive science that humans process continuous speech by routinely chunking it up into smaller units. The nature of the process is open to debate, which is complicated by the apparent existence of two entirely different chunking processes, both of which seem to be warranted by the limitations of working memory. To overcome them, humans seem to both combine items into larger units for future re…
Continuous speech segmentation by L1 and L2 speakers of English: The role of syntactic and prosodic cues
We investigated how native and fluent users of English segment continuous speech and to what extent they use sound-related and structure-related cues. As suggested by the notion of multi-competence, L1 users are not seen as ideal models with perfect command of English, and L2 users not as lacking in competence. We wanted to see how language experience affects speech segmentation. We had participants listen to extracts of spontaneous spoken Englis…
Linear Unit Grammar—A Real‐Time Grammar
The Linear Unit Grammar (LUG) seeks to bridge the gap between ongoing speech and conventional grammatical analysis. In other words, it closes the gap between the linearity, or temporal dynamics, of discourse and the hierarchy of grammar. It seeks to capture the listener's experience of speech segmentation and analyses this in terms of a theoretical model which can also feed into a fine‐tuned analysis by more traditional grammars. LUG consists of …
Corpus Analysis of English as a Lingua Franca
English as a lingua franca (ELF) is a complex contact language, which accounts for the most widespread use of English in today's global communication. Like contact languages in general, ELF is used when speakers do not share a first language. It is neither codified nor regulated but emerges in encounters between multilingual speakers. Research seeks to uncover how English gets shaped and negotiated in such multilingually based communication. The …
Linguistics (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · English as a lingua franca (5 works) · Lingua franca (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works)