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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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Performance of face-threatening speech acts in Chinese and Japanese BELF emails
Jun Yao,Jie Song,Yanan Sheng +2 more
TL;DR: This article explored the performance of face-threatening speech acts by Chinese and Japanese in BELF emails, focusing on the genre structure and the linguistic realizations of mitigation, and found that Chinese tend to use more MSMs than Japanese.
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Translingual negotiation strategies in CMC contexts: English-medium communication in online marketplaces
TL;DR: This paper explored how interlocutors from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds employ the five translingual negotiation strategies of envoicing, recontextualization, interactional activity, entextualization and transmodality to communicate in online marketplaces.
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The Impact of English as a Global Lingua Franca on Intercultural Communication
TL;DR: The authors examines the concept of English as a lingua franca, moving from an historical overview to the present status of EASF, and examines the points of criticism from a socio-cultural and economic perspective.
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Marketing Strategy Of Mixing Another Language In Adverts: Study of English Code-mixing and Code-switching In Indian Advertisements for Cold Drinks
Priyanka Singh,Saurabh Mishra +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated the level of such mixing in Indian advertisements and found that English lexical mixing was common English code-mixing elements, while simple sentences, out of all types of sentences, were the most frequent items appearing at the levels of code-switching.
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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.