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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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Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers, Jean Wong, Hansun Zhang Waring. Routledge, New York and London (2010), xiv+304 pp.
Humour in Multi-Ethnic Peer-Group Interactions of Pre-Adolescent Children
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Verbal and nonverbal disagreement in an ELF academic discussion task
TL;DR: This paper examined the verbal features and visual cues used by ELF university students to disagree during an academic discussion task and found that participants perceived disagreements as an opportunity to listen, think, and share different opinions.
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Adapting ELT coursebooks listening materials within an ELF-aware perspective: Voices from Greek and Italian classrooms
TL;DR: In this article, Sifakis et al. highlight the need for ELT materials adaptation within the latest ELF and WEs literature and research and highlight adaptations of existing materials in EFL coursebooks used in Italy and Greece.
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Strategies for avoiding misunderstanding in English L2 conversations
Kim McDonough,Pavel Trofimovich +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the strategies used by university students in Canada to avoid misunderstanding during conversation and found that the students used more speaker strategies than listener strategies and produced more speaker strategy during the academic discussion than the personal topic.
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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.