Title: Interactive repair among English as a lingua franca speakers in academic settings
Source document: Brno studies in English. 2019, vol. 45, iss. 2, pp. [35]-52
Extent
[35]-52
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ISSN0524-6881 (print)1805-0867 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2019-2-2
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/142182
Type: Article
Language
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
The paper presents the results of research which studies the use of English as a lingua franca in spoken academic discourse interactions, providing a deeper insight into the interactional practices utilized in the process of achieving the communicative purpose(s) of international university seminars. Drawing on audio-recorded data collected from English-taught seminars at the University of Ostrava and using conversation analytic procedures, the research explores the character and functions of interactive repair and its role in increasing mutual understanding and preventing communication breakdown in lingua franca academic talk. The article discusses strategies of providing language support and/or feedback to one's communicative partners in negotiating both meaning and form of talk, and offers findings which portray ELF speakers as competent communicators adaptable to different sociopragmatic contexts.
Note
This article is an output of the internal grant project SGS10/FF/2017 Communicating Across Cultures: Local and Translocal Features of Genres in Online and Offline Environment at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
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[6] Drew, Paul (1997) Open class repair initiators in response to sequential sources of troubles in conversation. In: Journal of Pragmatics 28, 69–101.
[7] Drew, Paul and John Heritage (1992) Analyzing talk at work: an introduction. In: Drew, Paul and John Heritage (eds.) Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3–65.
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[20] Mauranen, Anna (2006) Signaling and preventing misunderstanding in English as lingua franca communication. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 177, 123–150.
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