for words and formulating what to say—and advance this interactional work by incorporating
gestures, gesture holds, and other embodied actions (eg, gaze) in the context of English as
a lingua franca (ELF). Employing a multimodal conversation analytic approach, we examine
video-recorded interactions of one dyad at a dinner table at an international graduate
student dormitory in the United States. We illustrate how gestures, gesture holds, and gaze …