Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Spoken English

Tony McEnery; Isobelle Clarke; Gavin Brookes

doi:10.1017/9781009208932

Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Spoken English

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Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, Isobelle Clarke, Lancaster University, Gavin Brookes, Lancaster University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781009208932
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009208932
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Applied Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Series:: Studies in English Language

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How do language learners interact with those who already speak the language they are learning? It is more than just a question of learning vocabulary and grammars – learners also need to learn how to put together conversations in their new language and to vary the way they interact across different contexts. This book shows, using millions of words of data, how this happens. It is the first large scale, corpus-based exploration of the discourse macro-structures in conversational interaction between L1 and L2 speakers, and explores three corpora to show, in spoken interaction with L1 speakers across a range of tasks, the dynamics of discourse construction. Considering factors including cultural background, task and proficiency, it characterises the repertoire of discourse functions used in these interactions and shows how they vary according to a range of variables. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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