This paper is principally about methodology. It first summarizes five issues in the emerging
research agenda of conversation analysis-for-second language acquisition (CA-for-SLA) …

The first substantial textbook on pragmatics to focus on Spanish. The authors discuss key
theories within the Anglo-American tradition of pragmatics, concentrating on the relationship …

This volume brings together contributions by leading researchers of the social interactional
and socio-cultural approaches to language learning and teaching. It provides both an …

The contributors to this book discuss how language is used in educational contexts both in
and out of classrooms, and they describe how language learners do social actions, reflect …

This paper reports on a study of cultural differences in conversational structure and the
expression of apology in German and Australian workplace telephone discourse. While the …

The paper considers whether is it possible to view interactions with so-called conversational
agents (chatbots, voice assistants, etc.) as a form of conversation. It is argued here that such …

Taking an interactional sociolinguistic approach, this quantitative study analyses factors
(age, gender, purpose of call and rules of mirrored form) that modify German and Australian …

Much work of studying opening conversations has been conducted on landline telephone
calls; whereas, mobile phone conversations have received less attention by researchers …

This article investigates the strategic sequential options used to open a real workplace
discourse in public utilities between Jordanian inquirers and employees. We examined how …

Phone call openings have been a subject of interest for research studies across cultures and
languages since the 1960s (eg, Desrosiers, 2006; Lee, 2006; Schegloff, 1968, 1979; Sun …