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The discursive accomplishment of normality: On “lingua franca” English and conversation analysis
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The authors explored a range of issues surrounding the applicability of conversation analytic methodology to lingua franca talk-data and discussed the various methods through which participants do international and discursive work to imbue talk with an orderly and "normal" appearance, in the face of extraordinary, deviant, and sometimes "abnormal" linguistic behaviour.About:
This article is published in Journal of Pragmatics.The article was published on 1996-08-01. It has received 909 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: English as a lingua franca & Conversation analysis.read more
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An exploration of the communication strategies used when culture-laden words are translated from Japanese to Arabic in ELF interaction
TL;DR: In this article, an English language course at a university in southern Japan by a British and a Libyan teacher-researcher explores the communication strategies used during the translation of culture-laden Japanese words into Arabic in real-time interaction using English.
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Corporate versus local language: Employees’ language choices in a multinational corporation in the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored when, why and how employees in multinational corporations choose between using their local language and the corporate language and found that advanced proficiency and attachment to local identity are the main reasons to choose local language instead of the corporate one.
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A comparison between the verbal interruptions by speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and speakers of English as a native language (ENL)
TL;DR: A Comparison between the Verbal Interruptions by Speaker of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and Speakers ofEnglish as a Native Language (ENL) is compared.
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The pragmatics of English as a lingua franca
TL;DR: English as a lingua franca (ELF) has been studied extensively in the last two decades of the previous century as mentioned in this paper and is characterized by interactants' joint, collaborative action in making the discourse robust and "normal" in the face of non-normative use of the English language.
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Ann S. Ferebee,Noam Chomsky +1 more
TL;DR: Methodological preliminaries of generative grammars as theories of linguistic competence; theory of performance; organization of a generative grammar; justification of grammar; descriptive and explanatory theories; evaluation procedures; linguistic theory and language learning.
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
TL;DR: Generative grammars as theories of linguistic competence as discussed by the authors have been used as a theory of performance for language learning. But they have not yet been applied to the problem of language modeling.
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A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation
TL;DR: Turn-taking is used for the ordering of moves in games, for allocating political office, for regulating traffic at intersections, for the servicing of customers at business establishments, and for talking in interviews, meetings, debates, ceremonies, conversations.
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The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation
TL;DR: In this article, a distinction is drawn between self-correction and other-correction, i.e., correction by the speaker of that which is being corrected vs. correction by some "other".
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Opening up closings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present some of the ways that have been developed for dealing with closings in conversation, and they make an attempt to specify the domain for which the closing problems as they have been posed seem apposite.