Chacón Beltrán, Manuel Rubén2024-05-202024-05-202021978-981-15-8245-5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8245-5https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/15469Lingua francas have played a crucial role throughout history on the development of civilization by facilitating communication among people of different cultures for different purposes. There have been, and there are, many instances of such “tools” for intercultural communication, but if there is a lingua franca that is playing a prominent role in the world at the moment, it is English. More than 375 million people speak English as a first language, and one-quarter of the world’s population (375 million) speak it as a second or foreign language (Crystal, 2012).enAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacionalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccesscapítulo de libro