Rather than being a foreign language for its users all over the world, English is increasingly used not just as an international lingua franca, but as a standard feature of the linguistic landscape everywhere—like in Taiwan.

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Lingua Franca, presented by Maria Zijlstra, looks at all aspects of language: language old, modern, and even invented. Through interviews and prepared talks, the program features experts who analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language. Examples of the sort of linguistic territory they traverse are: bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words. Lingua Franca is published every Saturday.
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Folge vom 25.02.2012English in Taiwan
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Folge vom 18.02.2012Versions of DickensIn his own time, Charles Dickens became known for a certain style, a certain type of writing, described as 'Dickensy'. We call it Dickensian now, a word that is synonymous with the Victorian age that he so vividly described. But he wrote under many other names, such as 'Boz', 'Revolver', 'W', 'The Sparkler of Albion' and, even privately, as 'The Inimitable'.