In:English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires
Axel Bohmann
[Varieties of English Around the World G72] 2025
► pp. 168–200
Chapter 7Communication
Published online: 18 September 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g72.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g72.c7
Article outline
- 7.1Repertoires and registers
- 7.1.1The “asylum speaker” revisited
- 7.1.2Language, citizenship, and asylum
- 7.2Strategies for overcoming communicative difficulties
- 7.2.1Extended tolerance of ambiguity
- 7.2.2Pooling of communicative resources
- 7.2.3Technological intervention
- 7.2.4Aspirational German
- 7.3Explaining breakdowns
- 7.3.1Particularizing: Unfriendly individuals
- 7.3.2Linguistic gatekeeping
- 7.3.3Scale-jumping
- 7.3.4Appropriating and subverting official discourses
- 7.4Organizing the resources: A non-linguacentric perspective
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