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The discursive accomplishment of normality: On “lingua franca” English and conversation analysis

Alan Firth
- 01 Aug 1996 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 2, pp 237-259
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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.
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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.

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Orthography for Interaction in English as a Lingua Franca : Temporarily Attenuating the Importance of Phonology

TL;DR: In this paper, the orthographic repair strategy that Speakers of English as a Lingua Franca utilize to reestablish intelligibility after a miscommunication was examined in Skype conversations.
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The Nature and Functions of Communication Strategies in L2 Oral Communication

TL;DR: In this paper, the type and functions of communication strategies employed by EFL learners in L2 oral communication were investigated and a new classification of CSs functions was revealed in a series of group discussions and interviews.
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Adapting English for the specific purpose of tourism: A study of communication strategies in face-to-face encounters in a French tourist office

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a premier pas vers l'etude de l'anglais du tourisme international, vise a montrer comment les locuteurs co-construisent du sens en anglais.
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An Overview of the Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation between Malaysia and Australia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore communication deviances and strategies in the negotiation discourse of Malaysian-Australian business encounters, from both a linguistic and non-linguistic perspective, and see miscommunication/deviances as factors that may hinder the business communication process and prevent negotiators from achieving their objectives.
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

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

Noam Chomsky
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

Emanuel A. Schegloff, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1973 - 
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.