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In a world where an increasing amount of communication takes place in English among non-native speakers, this study presents data from email exchanges to provide the first examination of sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of native-like variability in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context. The analysis of a range of linguistic variables (future tense, relative pronoun choice, complementizer use and adverbial placement) in the online interactions of Swiss speakers (with German, French and Italian mother tongues) allows the reader to gain a greater understanding of which linguistic features are source language-related and which are learning-related. This book will be a valuable resource for postgraduates and researchers interested in language variation and change, ELF and second language acquisition, as well as for undergraduates wanting guidance on different ways of examining sociolinguistic variables.

Sociolinguistics --- Interlanguage (Language learning) --- Language and languages --- Electronic mail messages --- Second language acquisition --- Communicative competence --- Competence, Communicative --- Communication --- Competence and performance (Linguistics) --- Psycholinguistics --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- E-mail correspondence --- E-mail messages --- Email correspondence --- Email messages --- Telematics --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Languages, Mixed --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Variation. --- Social aspects. --- Study and teaching --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Switzerland --- Languages. --- ELF. --- English as a Lingua Franca. --- Lingua Franca. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- Sociolinguistic Competence. --- foreign language learning. --- linguistic variables. --- second language learning. --- sociolinguistics.

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This volume explores the relationship between 'study abroad' and the acquisition of 'sociolinguistic competence' - the ability to communicate in socially appropriate ways. The volume looks at language development and use during study abroad in France by examining patterns of variation in the speech of advanced L2 speakers. Within a variationist paradigm, fine-grained empirical analyses of speech illuminate choices the L2 speaker makes in relation to their new identity, gender patterns, closeness or distance maintained in the social context in which they find themselves. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, four variable features of contemporary spoken French are analysed in a large population of advanced Irish-English speakers of French. This close-up picture provides empirical evidence by which to evaluate the wide-spread assumption that Study Abroad is highly beneficial for second language learning.

Langue seconde --- Sociolinguistique. --- Variation (Linguistique) --- Études à l'étranger. --- Français (Langue) --- Acquisition. --- Étude et enseignement --- Allophones. --- Foreign study. --- French language -- Acquisition. --- French language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. --- Language and languages -- Variation. --- Second language acquisition. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Second language acquisition --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Foreign study --- French language --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Variation --- Foreign speakers --- Study and teaching --- Acquisition --- Variation. --- Foreign speakers. --- Études à l'étranger. --- Français (Langue) --- Étude et enseignement --- International study --- Study abroad --- Studying abroad --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Second language learning --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Education --- Students, Foreign --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Language acquisition --- L2 speaker. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- Sociolinguistic Competence. --- Study Abroad. --- second language learner. --- second language learning. --- sociolinguistic variables. --- sociolinguistics.