Multimodal Try-marking for Securing Recipient Understanding of Codeswitched Lexical Items in Everyday ELF Conversations

In this paper I analyse sequences where multilingual English as lingua franca (ELF) speakers codeswitch single lexical items from their native language in an attempt to resolve a word search or when displaying hesitancy. The main focus of the is on try-marking used by technique for securing recipient understanding codeswitched items. analysis shows that does not only comprise rising intonation but also specific embodied resources highlight and prolong relevance response beyond prosodic marking. presents case which speaker invites confirmation without using relying mainly end positioning target near transition place combination with response-mobilising cues. results add our knowledge how participants pre-empt trouble achieve mutual linguistically diverse ELF settings.