Abstract This paper reports on several studies whose common theme is the elicitation of the lexical preferences of speakers of English in localized and globalized settings. Findings from analyses of various corpora show that there exists a relatively small set of preferred words that speakers of English rely on regardless of where the interaction takes place, with whom they are interacting, and what the purpose of the interaction is. Results also show that these lexical preferences are consistently prevalent to the extent that it is possible to advance the hypothesis that a relatively stable dominant vocabulary dynamically emerges out of ELF speaker interactions in order to serve certain communicative functions.

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识别 ELF 交互中的主要词汇

摘要 本文报道了几项研究，其共同主题是在本地化和全球化环境中引发英语使用者的词汇偏好。对各种语料库的分析结果表明，无论互动发生在何处、与谁互动以及互动的目的是什么，都存在相对较少的首选词集，这些词是说英语的人所依赖的。结果还表明，这些词汇偏好一直普遍存在，以至于有可能推进一个相对稳定的主导词汇从 ELF 说话者交互中动态出现的假设，以服务于某些交际功能。