Abstract In the past years, it has become generally accepted that the social dynamics of ELF cannot be captured by the notion of a speech community. Instead, the concept Community of Practice (CoP) has gained widespread currency in ELF research. While applications of the CoP framework have given rise to valuable insights, even ELF scholars who work with the concept often acknowledge its limitations. Since factors like situationality and ad hoc negotiation are seen as particularly important in ELF interactions, many ELF researchers have recently emphasized the transient and dynamic nature of the social clusters in which ELF communication typically takes place, especially in light of the multilingualism and language contact. This paper offers a first sketch of how the social dimension of ELF might on many occasions be conceptualized as involving Transient International Groups (TIGs) rather than more stable CoPs. Building on the idea that the Individual Multilingual Repertoires (IMRs) of ELF speakers make up a Multilingual Resource Pool (MRP) in each ELF interaction, the paper argues that ELF theory-building and descriptive work would benefit from exploring the group and the development dimension of ELF more thoroughly than has been done so far. In support, the paper provides a qualitative case study of a TIG in the leisure domain of VOICE. This case study illustrates how an in-depth micro-diachronic analysis of multilingual practices and instances of explicit reference to languages, countries, places, etc., can make visible the group’s development of shared translingual and transcultural territory.

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Transient International Groups (TIGs)：探索ELF的群体和发展维度

摘要 在过去的几年里，人们普遍认为 ELF 的社会动态不能被言语社区的概念所捕捉。相反，实践社区 (CoP) 的概念在 ELF 研究中得到了广泛传播。虽然 CoP 框架的应用产生了有价值的见解，但即使是研究该概念的 ELF 学者也经常承认其局限性。由于情境和临时协商等因素在 ELF 互动中被视为特别重要，因此许多 ELF 研究人员最近强调了 ELF 交流通常发生的社会集群的短暂性和动态性，特别是考虑到多语言和语言接触。本文提供了 ELF 的社会维度如何在许多情况下被概念化为涉及瞬态国际组 (TIG) 而不是更稳定的 CoP 的第一个草图。基于 ELF 演讲者的个人多语言曲目 (IMR) 在每次 ELF 互动中构成多语言资源库 (MRP) 的想法，本文认为，ELF 理论构建和描述性工作将受益于探索群体和发展维度ELF 比迄今为止所做的更彻底。作为支持，本文提供了 VOICE 休闲领域中 TIG 的定性案例研究。本案例研究说明了对多语言实践的深入微观历时分析以及明确提及语言、国家、地点等的实例，