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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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Communication courtesy or condescension? Linguistic accommodation of native to non-native speakers of English
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Longitudinal Conversation Analysis - Introduction to the Special Issue
TL;DR: In this article, the authors scrutinize the novel insights that can be extracted from conversation analysis to identify changes in people's interactional practices over time, and if so, how to identify those changes.
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Knowing matters : how students address lack of knowledge in bilingual classroom interaction
TL;DR: Jakonen et al. as discussed by the authors investigated how secondary school students initiate and conduct interaction to address lack of knowledge in a Content and Language Integrated (CLIL) classroom and considered how such interactions may relate to learning.
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(Im)politeness in cross-cultural encounters
TL;DR: In this article, the notions of politeness and impoliteness are discussed and some conclusions about misunderstandings in cross-cultural communication and ways to mitigate or avoid them are drawn.
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Creating common ground: The role of metapragmatic expressions in BELF meeting interactions
Ping Liu,Huiying Liu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) in creating common ground (CG) in business English as a lingua franca (BELF) meeting interactions, and found that speakers mainly employ four types of MPEs, i.e. commentaries, speech-action descriptions, message glosses and evidentials, as pre-emptive or corrective strategies when they are aware of potential or actual problems or difficulties in interactions.
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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.