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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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Multilingual Strategies of Negotiating English: From Conversation to Writing
TL;DR: The authors explored how multilinguals' modes of negotiating English in conversational encounters may explain the strategies they adopt in writing in writing. But, their focus was not on the language acquisition and communicative competence in multilingual contexts.
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Constructing content and language knowledge in plurilingual student teamwork: situated and longitudinal perspectives
TL;DR: This article explored how students in an Educational Psychology subject in a university L2 immersion context accomplish learning, mobilise their plurilingual repertoires and restructure their participation in carrying out a teamwork task over the course of approximately one week.
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Translingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies
TL;DR: The authors argue that the way critical scholars and multilinguals relate to language diversity is different from the way neoliberal policies and agencies use multilingualism for their purposes, and label the latter as informed by a postcolonial language ideology, to distinguish it from that of neoliberalism.
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The practice of ‘mediation’ in English as a lingua franca interaction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate mediation in multiparty interaction in an English-medium university seminar course and find that mediation occurs frequently in the university course analysed and that the institutional practices of the course influence the practice of mediation: the course teachers take on the role of an intermediary.
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Investigating meaning-making in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
TL;DR: This paper investigated the meaning-making practices in interactions of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) interactions with international students and found that the students were making specific meaning through translanguaging, and this contributed to the achievement of the pragmatic functions of filling in a lexical gap and using some more precise lexis.
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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.