| Title: | Attitudes towards Euro-English in a European Union institution |
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| Authors: | ID Balič, Tina (Author) |
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| Files: |  ELOPE_2016_Balic_Attitudes_towards_Euro-English_in_a_European_Union_Institution.pdf (227,32 KB)
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 http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/4883
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | This study deals with the attitudinal aspect of Euro-English, denoting a specific form of the English language that is frequently used within the institutions of the European Union. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 285 representatives who work for one of these institutions in Brussels. The respondents were asked to rate several deviations from Standard English, identified in a corpus-based analysis of EU texts, as either "acceptable" or "unacceptable" English usage. The findings reveal that the high acceptability rates of the proposed features among the non-native English-speaking respondents were mainly related to their proficiency in English and/or mother tongue interference. Moreover, since native speakers of English also accepted most of the proposed deviations, it follows that the participants did not seem to be aware of non-standardness in the test sentences. Euro-English must be regarded as EU jargon due to its technical, administrative or legal nature and not as a separate non-standard form of English for EU institutional settings. |
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| Keywords: | European Union institution, Euro-English, corpus linguistics, deviations from Standard English, attitudes towards language, Eurojargon |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Year of publishing: | 2016 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 131-152 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 13, št. 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-65662  |
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| ISSN: | 1581-8918 |
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| UDC: | 811.111'27(4) |
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| ISSN on article: | 1581-8918 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 63017314 |
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| DOI: | 10.4312/elope.13.2.131-152 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:DLFT02IC |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 12.05.2017 |
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| Views: | 1258 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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