ENGLISH AS LINGUA FRANCA IN ACADEMIA – IN BETWEEN GLOBALISING TRENDS AND EMERGING THOUGHT PATTERNS

Simona Catrinel AVARVAREI ‘Ion Ionescu de la Brad’ University of Iasi

Аннотация

Over the last few decades there has been a substantial increase in the globalisation of research and teaching practices in academia worldwide. The globalising trends in the educational environment have had great implications over the academic discourse, noticed not only in the Anglophone context, but wherever scientific exploration went beyond the local linguistic and cultural background. Such hybridization comes with a cost, for globalization takes its toll of standardization and levelling, quite often making the local colouring fade away as it almost turns its uniqueness into disuse and obliviousness. This paper is concerned with the way in which the hegemonic tendencies of English, as lingua franca in academia, come to influence and affect the lexical and socio-pragmatic dimension of the Romanian language. Keywords: globalisation, lingua franca, academic discourse, hybridization.