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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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What Is International English
TL;DR: The authors examine what is meant by various terms employed in the literature and focus on the international use of English by people for whom it is not a first or official, institutionalized second language, a population which is rapidly growing in number but whose linguistic behavior is still under-researched.
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Exploring language identities in English as a lingua franca communication: experiences of bilingual university students in Hong Kong
TL;DR: The authors reported on a qualitative inquiry into language identities in English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication from the perspectives of a group of Chinese-English bilingual students at a Hong Kong university.
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ELF in international school exchanges: stepping into the role of ELF users
TL;DR: The authors explored how English is used in its role of a lingua franca in a set of written and spoken data gathered within two such international projects which took place in the Verona area, Italy, in school years 2009-2011.
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Teaching Business English through Translation
TL;DR: The present paper focuses on the role of translation in Business English teaching from a pedagogical perspective including both translation from L1 to L2 as well as from a teaching and learning perspective.
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Achieving “comity”: the role of linguistic stance in business English as a lingua franca (BELF) meetings
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the role of stance markers in achieving comity within a business context and analyse stance markers, which comprise a range of lexical and grammatical features of language, in authentic audio-recorded BELF interaction.
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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.