Publications

Publication details [#64382]

Svennevig, Jan. 2018. “What’s it called in Norwegian?” Acquiring L2 vocabulary items in the workplace. Journal of Pragmatics 126 : 68–77.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

everyday conversation | L2-acquisition | technical language | vocabulary growth | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

L2 speakers may propose a word search as a language problem. Word search sequences may be extended by iteration sequences. Repeats show L2 speakers’ identification of a word and competence to speak it. Expansion sequences show an orientation to language acquisition.