Publications

Publication details [#56572]

Jenks, Christopher Joseph. 2012. Doing Being Reprehensive: Some Interactional Features of English as a Lingua Franca in a Chat Room. Applied Linguistics 33 (4) : 386–405.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative failure | consensus | internet | lingua franca | multiparty conversation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study of multiparty voice-based chat rooms demonstrates that English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) interactants are not intrinsically mutually supportive and consensus seeking, but highlight communication problems or difficulties via laughter, joking, and mockery.