Publications

Publication details [#60045]

Konakahara, Mayu. 2015. An analysis overlapping questions in casual ELF conversation: Cooperative or competitive contribution. Journal of Pragmatics 84 : 37–53.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This study explores how international students from distinct lingua-cultural backgrounds, exploit overlapping questions to actively confer to the development of ongoing interactions on social occasions, interpersonal relationships and mutual comprehension in British university contexts, where English is broadly employed as lingua franca (ELF).