Ali Kazemi

TL;DR: The analysis of the data from 39 mundane mobile phone calls suggests that as in English, in the closing-implicative environment where the core business of the call is accomplished, occasioning the move toward closing, some pre-closing signals foreshadow initiation of closing, providing the possibility for parties to interactionally bring calls to closure, shade them or even topicalize something new.

TL;DR: The findings were that concept mapping had a statistically significant effect on speaking accuracy and complexity of intermediate EFL learners and rehearsal significantly improved accuracy, however, there was no indication that rehearsal can significantly improve speaking complexity.

TL;DR: The findings suggest consequentiality of the-relevant-next action for the framing of locational descriptions and provide insight into how conversationalists interact with their physical environment in a wider social context.

TL;DR: Analysis of the initiation and framing of self-initiated self-repairs in ongoing turn-constructional units in Farsi conversation revealed that there is some language-specific prosodic patterning which applies to both the foregrounding for incipient repairs and repair solutions.