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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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On Discourse, Communication, and (Some) Fundamental Concepts in SLA Research
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Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning
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English as a lingua franca
TL;DR: English as a lingua franca (ELF) has emerged as a way of referring to communication in English between speakers with different first languages as discussed by the authors, and most ELF interactions take place among non-native speakers of English.
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Closing A Conceptual Gap: The Case For A Description Of English As A Lingua Franca
TL;DR: The authors argue that although this orientation is often recognized as inappropriate and counter-productive, it persists because discussions about global English on the meta-level have not been accompanied by a necessary reorientation in linguistic research: very little empirical work has so far been done on the most extensive contemporary use of English worldwide, namely English as a lingua franca.
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On Conversation: The Conversation Analytic Perspective
TL;DR: Conversational analysis as mentioned in this paper is a set of qualitative procedures based on detailed observation to capture the discernible features of conversational exchange, and discusses the underlying principles of these procedures and considers the nature of conversations governed by institutional membership and master identities.
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Idiomatic expressions and their role in the organization of topic transition in conversation
Elizabeth Holt,Paul Drew +1 more
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Mother tongue : the English language
TL;DR: English is the world's most spoken language and English is the most widely spoken language in the world as mentioned in this paper, but it is also one of the most difficult languages to learn to use.
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On the Non-Fatal Nature of Trouble: Sense-Making and Trouble-Managing in Lingua Franca Talk
Brigitte Jordan,Nancy Fuller +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find that persons who are deficient in language competence, who share a language imperfectly spoken by all participants, nevertheless turn out to be experts in locating, avoiding, replacing, fixing, ignoring, talking about and otherwise dealing with troubles arising in such situations.
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Orienting to the Phenomenon
TL;DR: In this paper, a transcribed segment of courtroom interaction is offered so as to examine, in turn-by-tum detail, the nature of participants' achieved orientations to a civil hearing, arguing that by examining actual sequences of interaction as displays of social order, priority is given to the talk itself.