Second language conversations / edited by Rod Gardner and Johannes Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardner, Rod.

Wagner, Johannes.

Series:

Advances in applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Conversation analysis.

Bilingualism.

Physical Description:

x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2004]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Ways of 'Doing Being Plurilingual' in International Work Meetings / Lorenza Mondada 18

Brokering and Membership in a Multilingual Community of Practice / Terkel Skarup 40

Clients or Language Learners - Being a Second Language Speaker in Institutional Interaction / Salla Kurhila 58

Embedded Corrections in Second Language Talk / Catherine E. Brouwer, Gitte Rasmussen, Johannes Wagner 75

Doing Pronunciation: A Specific Type of Repair Sequence / Catherine E. Brouwer 93

Some Preliminary Thoughts on Delay as an Interactional Resource / Jean Wong 114

The Logic of Clarification: Some Observations about Word-Clarification Repairs in Finnish-as-a-Lingua-Franca Interactions / Harrie Mazeland, Minna Zaman-Zadeh 132

Pursuit of Understanding: Rethinking 'Negotiation of Meaning' in View of Projected Action / Junko Mori 157

Inside First and Second Language Speakers' Trouble in Understanding / Maria Egbert, Lilo Niebecker, Sabrina Rezzara 178

Restarts in Novice Turn Beginnings: Disfluencies or Interactional Achievements? / Donald Carroll 201

Talk and Gesture: The Embodied Completion of Sequential Actions in Spoken Interaction / David Olsher 221

On Delaying the Answer: Question Sequences Extended after the Question / Rod Gardner 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index.

ISBN:

0826469086

OCLC:

53306489