Publications

Publication details [#57932]

Waring, Hansun Zhang. 2013. ‘How was your weekend?’: developing the interactional competence in managing routine inquiries. Language Awareness 22 (1) : 1–16.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | interactive processing | language and culture | question-answering system | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This conversation analytic study draws on data from an adult English as a second language class, to demonstrate how learners cultivate their skills in grasping the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic features of specific interactional routine inquiries in English over a nine weeks span.