Second Language Conversations

by Johannes Wagner and Rod Gardner

"This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' participation in a wide range of activities, it challenges the dominant view of 'nonnative speakers' as deficient communicators. Proposing instead to understand second language users' conversational participation as interactional achievement, the book makes a powerful case for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826488005
• ISBN13: 9780826488008
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"