Second language interaction / Salla Kurhila.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurhila, Salla.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 145.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 145

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Members of divergent societies are increasingly involved in interactional situations, both publicly and privately, where participants do not share linguistic resources. Second language conversations have become common everyday events in the globalized world, and an interest has evolved to determine how interaction is conducted and understanding achieved in such asymmetric conversations. This book describes how mutual intelligibility is established, checked and remedied in authentic interaction between first and second language speakers, both in institutional and everyday situations. The study is rooted in the interactional view on language, and it contributes to our knowledge on interactional practices, in particular in cases where some doubt exists about the level of intersubjectivity between the participants. It expands the traditional research agenda of conversation analysis that is based on the concepts of 'membership' and 'members' shared competences'. By showing in detail how speakers with restricted linguistic resources can interact successfully and achieve the (institutional) goals of interactions, this study also adds to our knowledge of the questions that are central in second language research, such as when and how the non-native speakers' 'linguistic output' is modified by themselves or by the native speakers, or when the non-native speakers display uptake after these modifications.

Contents:

Second Language Interaction

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

1.1. Setting up the problem: Interaction and understanding in talk between native and non-native speakers

1.2. Method of study, transcription, and data: Institutional vs. everyday conversation

1.3. Second language comprehension vs. interactional understanding

1.4. The organisation and the relevance of the study

Repair organisation as a means to construct understanding

2.1. Interactional understanding and repair organisation

2.2. Initiating or doing repair?

2.3. Trouble turns

Other-correction

3.1. Introduction

3.1.1. The preference organisation for repair in asymmetric conversation

3.1.2. Embedded vs. exposed correction

3.2. Types of other-repair sequences: Repair is not repeated

3.2.1. Extended answers: No overt orientation towards the correction by either of the participants

3.2.2. Repetition after new information: Ambiguous orientation to the correction by the recipient

3.2.3. Conclusion

3.3. Types of other-repair sequences: Orienting to correction by repeating it

3.3.1. Repair as a response to uncertainty

3.3.2. Non-responsive correction by the NS

3.4. Discussion

Word search

4.1. Introduction

4.1.1. Word search in the CA tradition

4.1.2. Word search in L2-data

4.2. Lexical searches

4.2.1. Initiating the search: Interrogatives as a means to flag the problem

4.2.2. Resolving the search: Loan words

4.2.3. Resolving the search: Fennicized words

4.2.4. Initiating and/or resolving the search: Negating a semantically contiguous referent

4.3. Grammatical searches

4.3.1. A completing response by the NS

4.3.2. No substantial response by the NS

4.3.3. The discrepancy in the orientation by the participants: The junction of grammar and lexicon.

4.4. Discussion: Difficulty in finding a word

Candidate understandings

5.1. Introduction

5.1.1. Defining the phenomenon

5.1.2. Properties of candidate understandings

5.2. Paraphrasing candidate understandings

5.2.1. Paraphrases by the NS - condensing previous turns

5.2.2. Paraphrases by the NNS - the client's resource

5.3. Uncertainty-marked candidate understandings

5.3.1. Uncertainty-marked paraphrase as elaborating an utterance

5.3.2. Uncertainty-marked paraphrase as identifying a term

5.3.3. Uncertainty-marked paraphrases as presenting a conclusion

5.3.4. Uncertainty-marked paraphrases: Summary

5.4. Completing candidate understandings

5.4.1. Completion as a response to difficulty

5.4.2. Completion as articulating (revealing) the other's position in a problematic sequence

5.4.3. Completing candidate understandings: Summary

5.5. Discussion

Concluding discussion

6.1. Tendencies in NS-NNS interaction

6.2. Is there a ``non-native fingerprint'' in conversation?

6.3. Is there an ``institutional fingerprint'' in conversation?

6.4. Implications arising from the present study

Notes

Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

References

Appendix

Transcription symbols

Glossing symbols

Case endings

Others

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612155956

9781282155954

1282155954

9789027293657

9027293651

OCLC:

614893296