Conflict talk in English as a lingua franca : analyzing multimodal resources in casual ELF conversations

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. 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