Publications

Publication details [#54890]

Kaur, Jagdish. 2011. Raising explicitness through self-repair in English as a lingua franca. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (11) : 2704–2715.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | conversational analysis | explicitness | lingua franca | self-repair

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This conversation analytic study of naturally occurring English as a lingua franca conversations amongst international graduate students, discusses how participants' self-repair practices make utterances explicit and enhance communicative clarity.