Second language conversations
Title:
Second language conversations
Author:
Gardner, Rod.
ISBN:
9781847140845
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Continuum, c2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 292 p.) : ill.
Series:
Advances in applied linguistics
Advances in applied linguistics.
Contents:
General Editors' Foreword; Introduction; Ways of 'Doing Being Plurilingual' in International Work Meetings; Brokering and Membership in a Multilingual Community of Practice; Clients or Language Learners -- Being a Second Language Speaker in Institutional Interaction; Embedded Corrections in Second Language Talk; Doing Pronunciation: A Specific Type of Repair Sequence; Some Preliminary Thoughts on Delay as an Interactional Resource; The Logic of Clarification: Some Observations about Word-Clarification Repairs in Finnish-as-a-Lingua-Franca Interactions.
Abstract:
'This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' participation in a wide range of activities, it challenges the dominant view of 'non-native speakers' as deficient communicators. Proposing instead to understand second language users' conversational participation as interactional achievement, the book makes a powerful case for 'ethnomethodological re-specification' in second language research.' Professor Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'iIn this book second language conve.
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