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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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Humour in Multi-Ethnic Peer-Group Interactions of Pre-Adolescent Children

Kate Bennett
TL;DR: This paper studied the role that peer-group interaction plays in pre-adolescent children's interactional skills and found that children are engaging in sophisticated peer relationships in everyday interactional routines.
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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, +1 more
- 25 May 2023 - 
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

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.