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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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Effectiveness of interventions on improving English language learners’ intelligibility and comprehensibility: A meta-analytic review
TL;DR: This article examined the effectiveness of interventions on the intelligibility of English language learners (ELLs) and the comprehensibility of their speech by native speakers in two related but independent meta-analytic studies and found that the measures of intelligibility and comprehensibility, and the speech task type, were significant factors explaining the effect size variations between the included studies in both analytic reviews.
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Pragmatic manipulation of metapragmatic expressions in BELF meetings
Ping Liu,Huiying Liu +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the function of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) as pragmatic manipulation during Business English as a Lingua franca (BELF) meetings within the framework of the socio-cognitive approach (SCA), with special attention to how MPEs in the chair's utterances reveal their way of using institutional power to accomplish communicative tasks.
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A Study on Symbolic Competence and Face in ELF Email Communication
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how an editor demonstrated her symbolic competence and negotiated face with contributors through email communication in a context where English was used as a lingua franca.
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Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community
Sabine Fiedler,Cyril Brosch +1 more
TL;DR: This paper studied the use of code-switching, phraseology and metaphors by speakers of Esperanto in a large number of communicative areas and found that they employ techniques to enhance understanding, such as metacommunication and repair strategies, as well as their predilection for humour.
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Current Conceptualization of English as Lingua Franca
TL;DR: In this article, the use and employment of English for varied purposes and its implications and results are analyzed. And the native-non-native speaker dichotomy and ways to resolve the situation are brought into consideration.
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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.