Johanna Rendle-Short

List of John Benjamins publications for which Johanna Rendle-Short plays a role.

Title

Language as Action

Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 (2007) 108 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy

Articles

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
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
Nevile, Maurice and Johanna Rendle-Short 2007 Language as actionLanguage as Action, Nevile, Maurice and Johanna Rendle-Short (eds.), pp. 30.1–30.13 | Miscellaneous
Rendle-Short, Johanna 2004 Showing structure: Using um in the academic seminarPragmatics 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
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
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