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The discursive accomplishment of normality: On “lingua franca” English and conversation analysis

Alan Firth
- 01 Aug 1996 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 2, pp 237-259
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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.
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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.

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Applying conversation analysis in applied linguistics: Evaluating dialogue in English as a second language textbooks

TL;DR: This paper examined telephone dialogues in English as a second language (ESL) textbooks against the backdrop of what is reported about real telephone interaction in conversation analysis research and found that the fit between what conversation analysts say about natural telephone conversation and the examples found in textbooks is unsatisfactory Elements such as summon-answer, identification, greeting, and how-are-you sequences, often found in naturally occurring telephone exchanges, are absent, incomplete, or problematic in the textbook dialogues.
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Developing pragmatic competence in English as a lingua franca: Using discourse markers to express (inter)subjectivity and connectivity

TL;DR: This paper investigated how ELF speakers improve their pragmatic competence by using the discourse markers yes/yeah, so and okay as expressions of (inter)subjectivity and connectivity, and found that speakers of English as a lingua franca in academic consultation hours tend to strategically re-interpret certain discourse markers in order to help themselves improve pragmatic competence and thus function smoothly in the flow of talk.

Science, Language, and Literacy : Case Studies of Learning in Swedish University Physics

John Airey
TL;DR: This thesis presents an investigation of undergraduate student learning with respect to physics lectures attended in English and Swedish, and studies three connected areas: student learning in English, mathematics and physics.
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Sla property: no trespassing

TL;DR: The authors argue that conceptual and methodological tensions in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) do exist, and that they indicate that the field is in need of broadening and is thus more or less ready and willing to reconsider concepts which have generally been unquestioningly accepted and well established (specifically, the concepts of learner, nonnative, and interlanguage).
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“Hej Seppo, Could You pls Comment on This!”—Internal Email Communication in Lingua Franca English in a Multinational Company:

TL;DR: Kankaanranta et al. as mentioned in this paper described internal email communication in Lingua Franca English in a Multinational Company Jyvaskyla, 2005, 459 p.
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

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

Noam Chomsky
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

Emanuel A. Schegloff, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1973 - 
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.