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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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Foreign language acquisition through interaction — A critical review of research on conversational adjustments
TL;DR: The authors discusses a number of methodological problems in this research, of which especially the model of communication assumed and the type of data analyzed are the most prominent, and discusses problems related to the introduction of core Conversation Analysis concepts into research on native-nonnative speaker communication.
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Small Talk, Rapport, and International Communicative Competence: Lessons to Learn From BELF
TL;DR: This paper explored the notion of small talk within the context of English as a lingua franca business communication in an international setting and found that small talk may play a key role in building relations and trust between staff in companies, which is of key importance in effective and productive business.
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Pragmatic strategies in English as an academic lingua franca: Ways of achieving communicative effectiveness?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated spoken English as a lingua franca (ELF) usage in Swedish higher education and found that lecturers in ELF settings make less frequent use of pragmatic strategies than students who deploy these strategies frequently in group-work sessions.
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In Search of a New Paradigm for Teaching English as an International Language
TL;DR: In the context of more diverse communicative practices and social relations in globalization, scholars are increasingly defining English as constituting socially constructed situational norms in specific contexts of interaction, and not a homogeneous language or even discrete varieties of English as mentioned in this paper.
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English as a Lingua Franca: An Immanent Critique
TL;DR: The authors argue that the ELF movement exhibits an idealist rationalism which blinkers it to the political economy and class stratification of English in a globalized world, and that in its theory it combines a rationalist, positivist and objectivist epistemology with a transformationalist, post-modern and poststructuralist sensibility which is both incommensurable and undertheorized.
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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.