ELF Interaction

This research strand examines how multilingual speakers manage everyday communicative tasks through English as a lingua franca (ELF). Using conversation analysis (CA) and multimodal CA, the projects in this line of work explore the moment-by-moment, turn-by-turn organization of ELF talk among unacquainted speakers across institutional and social settings.

Current and recent topics include:

•     Knowledge-check sequences as pre-topical devices in ELF talk between unacquainted speakers

•     Multimodal repetition as an interactional resource in ELF meetings

•     The construction of linguistic identity and 'foreigner' categorization in Korean university ELF interactions

•     Co-alignment and epistemic stance-taking in cross-cultural interactions

Data come from video-recorded ELF interactions at universities in Seoul and Tokyo, analyzed using Jeffersonian transcription conventions.