Unlike other areas of second language study, which are primarily concerned with
acquisitional patterns of interlanguage knowledge over time, most studies in inter-language …

As argued in Kamio's (1990, 1997) works on the theory of territory of information and other
studies, there are differences in how evidentials are used in Japanese and English. Due to …

. Listener responses are essential to the progress and intelligibility of conversation. Learners
of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) have only rarely been taught the forms and …

This chapter investigates the question of whether response items in Spanish can be
analysed using frameworks developed for the study of similar items in English. Data comes …

The skills involved in contributing competently in workplace interaction include enacting
attentive listenership and providing appropriate feedback to the talk of others. These …

A vida sociocultural comporta quadros de interacção conversacional que constituem
importantes unidades de análise à escala microscópica, passíveis de um estudo empírico …

This paper examines the nonverbal aspects of turn taking system in Mandarin Chinese talk-
in-interaction. Based on the audio and video data collected from real conversational settings …

In order to have a fuller interpretation of second language socialization processes in
intercultural communication contexts, this study sketches an overarching theoretical …