Language as Action
Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 (2007) 108 pp.
Johanna Rendle-Short
List of John Benjamins publications for which Johanna Rendle-Short plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
2014 Chapter 9. Using conversational structure as an interactional resource: Children with Asperger’s syndrome and their conversational partners Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne and Jon Brock (eds.), pp. 217–244 | Article
One of the diagnostic criteria for children with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) is pragmatic impairment. Yet, minimal interactional research has been carried out on what exactly ‘pragmatic impairment’ might mean. What do children with AS do (or not do) when interacting? What do they find interactionally… read more
2013 Making the ‘invisible’ visible: A conversation analytic approach to intercultural teaching and learning in the Chinese Mandarin language classroom Linguistics for Intercultural Education, Dervin, Fred and Anthony J. Liddicoat (eds.), pp. 113–136 | Article
This chapter demonstrates how conversation analysis or talk-in-interaction can be utilized in the language classroom in order to promote intercultural language learning. It shows how tertiary Mandarin language students can be given the techniques and opportunities to reflectively examine their own… read more
2011 Chapter 5. Address terms in the Australian political news interview Talking Politics in Broadcast Media: Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability, Ekström, Mats and Marianna Patrona (eds.), pp. 93–112 | Chapter
2007 Language as action Language as Action, Nevile, Maurice and Johanna Rendle-Short (eds.), pp. 30.1–30.13 | Miscellaneous
2004 Showing structure: Using um in the academic seminar Pragmatics 14:4, pp. 479–498 | Article
Um and uh are generally considered to be indicative of dysfluency and uncertainty in speech production. However, analysis of the academic seminar indicates that the distribution of um and uh is not random. In specific well-defined environments um is used to indicate the underlying structure of… read more
2003 “So what does this show us?”: Analysis of the discourse marker ‘so’ in seminar talk Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 26:2, pp. 46–62 | Article
Analysis of a series of computer science seminars indicates that use of the discourse marker ‘so’ in monologic talk is not random, rather it plays an important role in orienting the listener to the overall structure of the seminar. Although the institutional nature of seminar talk is such that… read more
1999 When “okay” is okay in computer science seminar talk Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 22:2, pp. 19–33 | Article
Analysis of a series of seminars given by CSIRO computer scientists indicates that the use of the discourse marker: okay, is not random; rather, it plays an important role in orienting the listener to the overall structure of the seminar. This paper shows how okay occurs in specific environments,… read more