Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Contributing authors -- Preface -- English as a lingua franca: Perspectives and prospects - Introduction -- I. Perspectives on the study of ELF -- Barbara Seidlhofer: Another 'mother's' reflection -- ELF corpora: Design, difficulties and triumphs -- ELF, adaptive variability and virtual language -- Visibility and absence: Ideologies of 'diversity' in BELF -- ELF in Responsible Tourism: Power relationships in unequal migration encounters -- English-medium instruction and English as the lingua franca in Higher Education in central and northern Europe -- Language education policies and practice in (Mediterranean) Europe: An ELF perspective -- ELF research - Its impact on language education in Japan and East Asia -- From ELF communication to lingua franca pedagogy -- Standards and lingua francas - A personal account -- II. The study of ELF in a wider context -- Section A: Sociolinguistics, variation and ELF -- World Englishes and English as a lingua franca: Relationships and interfaces -- ELF and new-dialect formation -- Historical linguistics and ELF -- What's in a word? Reflections on labels such as 'ELF' or 'English' -- Complexity theory and ELF: A matter of nonteleology -- (Morpho)syntactic transparency and ELF -- Conversation analysis and ELF -- Section B: Multilingual/-cultural perspectives and ELF -- Intercultural Communication and ELF -- Multilingual identity and ELF -- ELF and translation -- Multi, pluri, trans. . . and ELF: Lingualisms, languaging and the current lingua franca concept -- Section C: Policy, pedagogy and ELF -- Cosmopolitan combat: Politics, teaching and interpreting -- Learner language in ELF and SLA -- Language Testing and ELF: Making the connection -- Content and Language Integrated Learning and ELF -- Closing the gender gap: The role of English -- The Seidlhofer Effect: Gaining traction for ELF in language planning and educational change -- Afterword -- Expanding frontiers: Prospects on the creativity of ELF -- A select bibliography -- Index