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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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The management of dynamic epistemic relationships regarding second language knowledge in second language education: Epistemic discrepancies and epistemic (im)balance
TL;DR: The results show that participants may act on diverse L2 knowledge and diverse possible understandings regarding the assignments and that the use of L2 risks expanding these epistemic discrepancies, which appears to restrict doing L2 learning on conceptual knowledge, for example, word-meanings.
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Pragmatics, perceptions and strategies in Chinese college English learning
TL;DR: The authors investigated Chinese college English students' perceptions of pragmatics, their pragmatic competence in selected speech acts, strategies they employed in acquiring pragmatic knowledge, as well as their general approach to learning English as a foreign language.
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“Sorry?”/“Como?”/“Was?” – Open class and embodied repair initiators in international workplace interactions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated various open class and embodied other-initiations of repair in multilingual/L2 conversations and found that participants treat these as referring either to troubles in hearing (display 1) or troubles in understanding the linguistic format (display 2).
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Lingua francas and learning mobility: reflections on students’ attitudes and beliefs towards language learning and use
Claudia Borghetti,Ana Beaven +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored higher education students' beliefs and attitudes concerning language learning and use in the context of learning mobility, when lingua francas (including English) are used, through a questionnaire administered to 141 Erasmus students at an Italian University.
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Reconceptualizing cosmopolitanism in language and literacy education: Insights from a singapore school
TL;DR: This article examined the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) by a student from Vietnam to interact with her Singaporean peers in an English-medium Singapore secondary school.
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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.