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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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Functions of “you” in conference presentations
TL;DR: The authors studied the discourse functions of explicit you-mentions in conference presentations, trying to explain how they contribute to achieving speakers' goals, and investigated possible differences between native and non-native speakers in the way they conceptualize audiences into their presentations.
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Intercultural processes in accented English
TL;DR: This article assessed the attitudinal responses of 48 Japanese university students towards 10 accented English speech samples across nine evaluative criteria and found that although the students favored the native-English speech samples, they were generally unsuccessful in identifying where the speaker of each speech sample originated.
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English Medium Education in a University in Brunei Darussalam: Code-Switching and Intelligibility
Athirah Ishamina,David Deterding +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the historical background for adopting English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Brunei, and discuss recent developments at UBD, particularly for the new undergraduate program, called GenNEXT, adopted in 2009, and the number of students graduating from English-medium and Malay-medium programs is analysed.
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World Englishes and creative idioms in English as a lingua franca
TL;DR: This paper studied the creative use and variation of idioms in English as a lingua franca (ELF) for international communication and looked at creative idioms as emblematic instances of such transient language contact and multilingual creativity.
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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.