English in the Czech Republic: Linguists? perspectives

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2014-0014" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2014-0014</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2014-0014" target="_blank" >10.1515/soci-2014-0014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

English in the Czech Republic: Linguists? perspectives

Original language description

This article reflects on the presence of English in the Czech Republic and its influence on the Czech language situation. The aim of the article is: (1) to synthesize the previous research on English in the Czech Republic and (2) to contribute new empirical findings from the perspective of linguists working at a national language institute, the Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The first section discusses language policies applied to English in law, education, multinational companies, and the mass media. Attention is then also devoted to previous research on the influence of English on Czech. The empirical part of the study is based on 10 interviews with researchers from different departments of the Czech Language Institute aswell as on autoethnographic observations. It is argued that the spread of English as a global language and the most common lingua franca in the Czech Republic is facilitated by the supportive attitude of Czech language users towards Engli

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociolinguistica

ISSN

0933-1883

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

28

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

173-198

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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