Gardner Rod, Wagner Johannes (Editors). Second Language Conversations

Continuum, 2004. — x, 292 p. — (Advances in Applied Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-8264-6908-6.Conversations involving speakers whose first language is not the language in which they are talking have become widespread in the globalized world. Migration, increased travel for business or pleasure, as well as communication through new technologies such as the internet make Second Language Conversations an increasingly common everyday event.In this book Conversation Analysis is used to explore natural, casual talk between speakers in a second language. The contributors shift emphasis away from controlled contexts such as the classroom towards more sociable environments in which people go about their daily routines. English, German, French, Japanese, Finnish and Danish are all analyzed as second languages within a variety of professional, educational and sociable situations.This collection of essays aims to present naturally occurring Second Language Conversations in order to show what speakers in these situations do; how they utilize first language conversational practices, and whether or not grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation help or hinder the construction of meaning.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