This paper concerns ways L2 speakers utilize embodied practices when engaged in word
searches in interactions via video-mediated interaction. Examining the role of embodiment …

This special issue presents the current state of second language pragmatics research and
instruction situated in the broader scope of globalization. Seven empirical articles included …

This article uses multimodal conversation analysis to investigate bodily-visual resources in
action formation and ascription. The focus is on next actions that bring understanding to the …

In this critical essay, Yumi Matsumoto uses the concept of English as a lingua franca to
understand multilinguals' communicative practices and to support an alternative …

As a practical theory of language, translanguaging refers not only to speakers' use of
multiple languages, but also to the deployment of other semiotic resources and artifacts in …

This research looks at how speech partners react to language impoliteness in five YouTube
podcast videos. The research data in a descriptive qualitative framework are authentic or …

Teachers use “kinetically-held” questions by freezing representational gestures and holding
them during Initiation-Response-Evaluation/Feedback (IRE/F) sequences in whole-class …

This study investigates the speech act of refusals in the context of English as a lingua franca
(ELF), with a focus on the strategies, internal modifications, and preference organization of …

This chapter provides reconceptualizations of English as a lingua franca (ELF) not only from
the perspectives of linguistic and communicative multiplicity and fluidity but also from …

Abstract Inspired by Hult's (2010. Theme-based research in the transdisciplinary field of
educational linguistics. In Francis M. Hult (ed.), Directions and prospects for educational …