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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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Avoiding initiation of repair in L2 conversations-for-learning

- 06 Jul 2022 - 
TL;DR: The authors analyzed cases in which the L1 user avoids initiation of repair in next turn on the L2 user's talk, or in third position on his own talk, in conversations-for-learning.
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Language and Semiotic Mobility

TL;DR: In this paper, Canagarajah and Badwan discuss language in relation to mobility, and present different views on language and mobility and what they could possibly mean for the mobile languaging subjects.

English in a global voluntary work context: a case study of spoken interaction and its implications for language pedagogy

TL;DR: This paper analyzed spoken interaction between a Japanese volunteer working for JICA (Japan International Co-operation Agency) and one of her co-workers in Jamaica and presented an analysis of the spoken interaction based on these approaches, the resulting implications for language pedagogy are considered.
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Virtual Mobility and Learning for PhD students of six European Countries: students’ programme evaluation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forward an exploratory and descriptive nature, based on empiric evidence, of the student's final evaluation of the Virtual Mobility and Learning ERASMUS Intensive Programme (VML-IP).
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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.