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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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Enhancing business english terminology through concept mapping
TL;DR: Results of the data analysis unveil that theUse of a collaborative concept mapping tool promotes the development of linguistic competences as to the use of business terminology, but also of communication and collaboration competences.
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Teacher Cognition about Teaching and Learning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse how teaching a language is interpreted in action by teachers through the interactive work and suggest that a language classroom is a more complex learning environment where individual teachers implement their own educational values and agendas.
English as a Lingua Franca Conversation While Watching TV: Othering through Expertise.
TL;DR: This paper investigated the influence of an ongoing media (television) reception on such identities and found that participants were orienting to expert-novice identities regarding not only their linguistic knowledge but also their knowledge of the topic shown on television.
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Diversity in a sino-french company in beijing: how do employees manage their multilingual practices?
TL;DR: This paper studied how social actors organize talk-in-interaction and coordinate participation in multilingual work meetings in a Sino-French company in Beijing and examined the methods and verbal and multimodal resources used by ad hoc translators to keep work going and manage each member's participation.
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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.