Your Language, My Language or English? The Potential Language Choice in Communication Among Nationals of the European Union
Your Language, My Language or English? The Potential Language Choice in Communication Among Nationals of the European Union
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你的语言、我的语言还是英语？
DOI：
10.1111/1467-971x.00043
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发表时间：
1997
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
C. Quell
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作者：
Normand Labrie;C. Quell
1994年，欧洲晴雨表从欧盟12个成员国的代表性人口样本（n = 13，029）中收集了有关外语学习和使用外语参与对话能力的数据。根据这些数据，作者观察到，在过去的40年里，欧洲人的外语知识有了相当大的增长，从而提高了欧洲人之间的交流潜力。他们指出，三种最受欢迎的外语，英语，法语和德语，都在扩大。然而，到目前为止，英语是进步最大的语言，这就提出了英语最终作为一种弗兰卡出现的问题。作者使用来自Eurobarometer研究的代表性数据，按国家和年龄组区分，以估计当属于两个不同年龄组（15-24岁和55岁及以上）的两个不同国家的国民互动时，使用特定语言的概率。结论部分还探讨了一些社会语言学意义。
Data on foreign language learning and the ability to take part in a conversation using a foreign language were collected by Eurobarometer in 1994 from representative samples of the population in 12 member states of the European Union (n = 13,029). Drawing on these data, the authors observe that knowledge of foreign languages has increased considerably in Europe in the last 40 years, thereby improving the potential for communication among Europeans. They note that the three most learned and spoken foreign languages, English, French, and German, are all expanding. However, English is by far the language which has progressed the most, which raises the question of the eventual emergence of English as a lingua franca. The authors use the representative data from the Eurobarometer study, differentiated by country and by age group, to estimate the probability that a particular language will be used when nationals of two different countries belonging to two different age groups (15–24, and 55 and older) interact. Some sociolinguistic implications are examined in the conclusion.