Conflict Talk in English as a Lingua Franca : : Analyzing Multimodal Resources in Casual ELF Conversations / / Mayu Konakahara.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Konakahara, Mayu,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] , 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 245 p.)

This volume aims to fill two gaps in pragmatic research into English as a lingua franca (ELF): the investigation of conflict talk and the incorporation of a multimodal perspective into the analysis of ELF interactions. To this end, multimodal conversation analysis is used, combined with the perspective of politeness theory. The author shows how interactants use multimodal resources to manage competitive overlaps, disagreement, and third-party complaints in casual ELF conversations among friends. In doing so, the notion of cooperativeness is re-examined, and the appropriateness of an intercultural approach to analyzing multimodal resources in ELF interactions is demonstrated.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of acronyms -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Understanding ELF interactions from a participant-relevant emic perspective -- Chapter 3 Pragmatic research into ELF: The need for a multimodal perspective and more work on conflict talk -- Chapter 4 Data collection and transcript conventions -- Chapter 5 Interactional management of competitive overlaps -- Chapter 6 Interactional management of disagreement -- Chapter 7 Interactional management of third-party complaints in extended sequences of talk -- Chapter 8 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- References -- Index