1. Lingua franca Global Village
Terminology
Lingua franca
Global Village

2. “Text language is the lingua
lingua franca
Any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages
Any system of communication that provides mutual understanding
“Text language is the lingua
franca for teenagers”

3. Lingua franca
The Italian-Provençal language containing elements of Turkish, French, Spanish, Arabic and Greek that was formerly widely used in eastern Mediterranean ports

4. Global Village “Facebook is a global village”
The whole world considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being interdependent economically, socially, and politically
“Facebook is a global village”
First used in 1968 by author Marshall McLuhan in the book ‘War and Peace in the Global Village’ to describe the world that has been “shrunk” by modern advances in communications. McLuhan compared the wide network of communications systems to one extended central nervous system that linked everyone in the world together