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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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Syntactic complexity in English as a lingua franca academic writing
Xue Wu,Anna Mauranen,Lei Lei +2 more
TL;DR: This article studied how ELF users express meaning relations in research articles using different syntactic structures and found that ELF authors use longer sentences to improve communication efficiency and more coordinate phrases and complex nominals to enhance clarity and to increase explicitness.
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Getting acquainted in Skypecasts: aspects of social organization in online chat rooms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how Skypecasts, a voice-based CMC tool, is being used by participants from all over the world as a forum to learn and use English and found that what is deemed an appropriate or normal contribution in Skypecasts is neither fixed nor predetermined, but an organic collaborative agreement.
Lexeme recycled. How categories emerge from interaction.
TL;DR: By this method, new turns are modelled on old turns in socially and thematically motivated ways, which allow language, including syntactic and lexical categories, to continuously emerge as a feature of social interaction.
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Ownership and maintenance of a language in transnational use: Should we leave our lingua franca alone?☆
TL;DR: This article argued that in discussing norms for international English, an ownership discourse and a maintenance (or cultivation) discourse should be distinguished, and introduced some ideas from public goods theory that could be applied to an appreciation of international English.
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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.