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• "The official language of Telefónica is English": Problematizing the construction of English as a lingua franca in the Spanish telecommunications sector 

  Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2012)

  This article investigates the contradictions around the construction of English as a democratising lingua franca for intercultural communication and business in the Spanish telecommunications sector. From a critical ...

• Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes 

  Sabaté Dalmau, Maria (De Gruyter, 2015-07-02)

  From a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an 'ethnic' call shop in ...

• Competing linguae france: the place of english and spanish for chinese students 

  Lora Pineda, Paula Alejandra (2013-09)

  This research project focuses on the role of English and Spanish as linguae francae. More specifically, the research attempts to answer the following questions: (i) What is the place of English and Spanish as linguae francae ...