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Koç, Tuncay – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
Using Conversation Analysis, this article explores the ways in which teasing is employed as an interactional tool to respond to learner-initiated departures in videotaped adult English as Foreign Language classrooms. The analysis focuses on the moments of classroom interaction where student contributions and behaviours initiate shifts from the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Behavior
Waleed Nureldeen; Hala Alsabatin; Remon Eskander; Waleed Nasr – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Expressing emotions in a narrative requires a high degree of narrators' involvement in and reflection of personal experiences. An array of complex emotions is reflected in the narrators' use of a wide range of language and paralanguage tools when they share their feelings with their audience. This study attempted to investigate how female…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Personal Narratives, Females, Phrase Structure
Sabira S. Issakova; Nurgul K. Kultanbayeva; Akmaral S. Tukhtarova; Zhanar A. Zhetessova; Narkozy Ye. Kartzhan – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Ethnic stereotype is a culture-determined portrayal of a society, culture or a nation. A comprehensive worldview of an ethnic group tends to form stereotypes, and its analysis makes it possible to identify an ethnic group's cultural identity and characteristics. This study examined ethnic stereotypes in humorous discourse as portrayed in jokes of…
Descriptors: Humor, Ethnic Groups, Stereotypes, Turkic Languages
Çopur, Nimet; Atar, Cihat; Walsh, Steve – Classroom Discourse, 2021
Research on humour in second language classrooms has widely focused on the roles, social functions and markers of humour in interaction; however, little attention has been paid to the sequential mechanisms of humour and the relationship between repair and humour. Therefore, drawing on a conversation analytic approach, this study investigates…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Interaction, English (Second Language)
Rillo, Richard M.; Buslon, Junette B. – Online Submission, 2019
This study reported on the pragmatics of irony in humor in Vice Ganda's conversational jokes as an emerging drift in Philippine witticism. We analyzed a 52-token corpus of conversational witticisms (CWs) of the subject across the forms of media where he delivered this kind of witty and humorous utterances. Through the analyses made, We were able…
Descriptors: Humor, Pragmatics, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
Amar, Cheikhna; Nanbu, Zachary; Greer, Tim – Classroom Discourse, 2022
Based on interaction recorded in EFL classrooms, this study uses Conversation Analysis to document the post-first deployment of an absurd candidate formulation (ACF) to pursue recipient response at points of interactional delay. ACFs are a form of correction-invitation device in which the question initiator proffers a candidate response that is…
Descriptors: Humor, Political Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Error Correction
Choe, Ann Tai; Nguyen, Hanh thi; Vicentini, Cristiane – TESOL in Context, 2022
Despite rising interests in the manifestations of second language (L2) interactional competence (IC) in online language learning activities (e.g., Balaman & Sert, 2017a, 2017b), participants' interactional practices for managing epistemic stances in online searches remains largely unexplored. This paper examines how an intermediate-level…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Martín-Bylund, Anna; Stenliden, Linnéa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper studies how transnational children and their distantly located but emotionally close family members recreate their relationship using applications for online video calling. The focus is on the interaction of bodies and language, and if/how proximity of any kind is enabled. A critical posthumanist applied linguistics is embraced and…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Multilingualism
Farnia, Maryam – Teaching English with Technology, 2019
This paper aimed at investigating humor in text-based computer mediated communication (CMC). To this end, 200 turns exchanged by a number of 50 English language teachers on Viber, a messaging application, were randomly selected and analyzed based on Adam's (2012) classification of humor to examine emoticons, punctuations (question mark,…
Descriptors: Humor, Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Amirsheibani, Morteza; Ghazanfari, Mohammad; Pishghadam, Reza – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
Grice's conversational maxims have been one of the most influential pragmatic theories up to now. The primary purpose of this study was to measure the comprehension of Iranian intermediate EFL learners in terms of English humor based on Grice's non-observed conversational maxims. Moreover, this study intended to find which of Grice's non-observed…
Descriptors: Humor, Linguistic Theory, Scores, Pragmatics
A Study of Pragmatic Function of Speech Acts in Mission Statements on the Basis of Adaptation Theory
Mengqi, Zhang; Zhanghong, Xu; Muchun, Wan – English Language Teaching, 2018
Corporate mission, a core part of corporate culture, plays an important role in the development and competition of companies. The study of mission statements is beneficial to both companies and stakeholders. This paper explores corporate mission from the perspective of linguistics on the basis of speech act theory and adaptation theory and reveals…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Institutional Mission, Competition
Bhattacharya, Usree – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
The prevailing scholarship on Indians' beliefs about English has, with few exceptions, largely failed to capture ideological resistance. Given the supremacy of English within the hierarchically ordered and unequal linguistic landscape in India, this study intervenes within this limited area of research. This investigation excavates ideologies of…
Descriptors: Indians, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Humor
Ahn, So-Yeon – Language Awareness, 2016
The present study explores Korean students' demonstration of language awareness through their engagement in language play. Grounded in the understanding of the relationship between language play and an "engagement with language" (EWL) perspective, this ethnographic and discourse analytic study investigates how Korean students aged 11-15…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, English (Second Language)
Lee-Johnson, Yin Lam – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
The KSA has become a popular country for Americans to work as an EFL teacher in the recent years because of the payment and cultural experience (Hastings, 2012). Due to the wide social distance between the KSA and USA, the teachers had to adapt to the expectation and become legitimate participants (Lave and Wenger, 1991) in the local communities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Walker, Ute – Distance Education, 2017
This article examines the discursive construction of social presence and identity in a bilingual collaboration between tertiary distance learners of German in New Zealand and Academic English students in Germany. Drawing on positioning theory, this small-scale study investigated the collaborative practices of a group of students, whose synchronous…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning
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