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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822228903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY : , : Continuum, , 2005

ISBN

1-4742-1233-6

1-281-29897-2

9786611298975

1-84714-084-X

Edizione

[Pbk. edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Advances in applied linguistics

Disciplina

404/.2

Soggetti

Second language acquisition

Conversation analysis

Bilingualism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Pursuit of Understanding: Rethinking 'Negotiation of Meaning' in View of Projected Action Inside First and Second Language Speakers' Trouble in Understanding; Restarts in Novice Turn Beginnings: Disfluencies or Interactional Achievements?; Talk and Gesture: The Embodied Completion of Sequential Actions in Spoken Interaction; On Delaying the Answer: Question Sequences Extended after the Question; References; Transcription Conventions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'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 Hawaii this book second language