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Publication details [#62154]

Morris-Adams, Muna. 2016. Negotiating topic changes: native and non-native speakers of English in conversation. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 26 (3) : 366–383.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

informality | native vs. non-native interaction | topic change | topic control | topic initiation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This paper argues that non-native English speakers aptly manage to initiate and jointly negotiate ‘marked topic changes’ (with no link to earlier talk), during informal conversations with native English speakers.