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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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“That's Wrong”: Repair and Rapport in Culturally Diverse Higher Education Classrooms
TL;DR: This paper investigated what considerations for rapport motivate tutors' repair strategies in two culturally diverse higher education classes in the UK: an Oral Skills class from an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programme and an undergraduate Accounting class.
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Pre‐service teacher perspectives towards pedagogical uses of non‐native and native speech samples
TL;DR: In this paper, the attitudes of pre-service English language teachers in the United States towards native/non-native Englishes in interaction were investigated, and the results indicated a willingness among teachers to use non-native English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) as pedagogical models for certain language skills and course types.
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Orientation to language code and actions in group work
David Aline,Yuri Hosoda +1 more
TL;DR: This conversation analytic study reveals how learners themselves, as speakers and listeners, demonstrate their own orientation to language code and actions on a moment by moment basis during collaborative tasks in English as a foreign language classrooms.
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Accommodating understanding in English : an applied linguistic analysis of UK and international university students navigating TESOL tasks
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between accommodating, intelligibility and (mis)understanding implied by critical incidents at a UK university where I teach, and teach about English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).
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Figurative language and ELF: idiomaticity in cross-cultural interaction in university settings
TL;DR: Mauranen et al. as discussed by the authors explored spoken multiparty interaction among non-native speaker students and teachers engaging in academic discourse (i.e., seminars, group work), and investigated the role of idiomatic language in such settings by examining data drawn from the ELFA (English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings) and SELF (Studying in English as a Linguistic Franca) corpora, compiled in Helsinki.
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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.