Interactional positioning has to do with how people express their attitudes and dispositions others (stance) signal they wish relate other participants in the discourse (engagement). These are closely connected extent which impoliteness is expressed resources strategies employed. This study investigates interactional two Nigerian political discussion sites, Nairaland Forum Gistmania. The findin...

INTRODUCTION During the past decade, several scholars in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, and bilingualism have addressed the influence of gender on access to linguistic and interactional resources, on dynamics of classroom interaction, and on language learning outcomes (Ehrlich, 1997; Norton, 2000; Pavlenko, 2001; Pavlenko et al., 2001; Sunderland, 2000). The fiel...

Firms are increasingly engaged in digitally enabled supply chain integration (DeSCI) with their supply chain partners to leverage each other’s resources and capabilities for achieving competitive advantage. However, how the top management’s perceptions of justice and behaviors in the supply chain influence the DeSCI are not well understood. Drawing upon the upper echelons theory, we investigate...

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion and 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, and prompts on learner uptake and repair. The results clearly show a predominant provision of recasts over prompts and explicit correction, ...

Churchill Raw event facilitates creative self-expression of young comedians through the incorporation a variety sex-related taboo topics. Yet, multicultural nature participants in Nairobi-based makes communication such topics particularly problematic, as they can also be deemed offensive. Drawing on theoretical and methodological principles from Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz, 2003), t...

the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

This special issue brings together empirical studies that investigate how bodily practices feature in action formation and ascription multilingual interaction (Schegloff, 2007; Levinson, 2013). Grounded video-based conversation analysis drawing on data from diverse sociomaterial settings, the articles contingent interactional processes through which speakers different language backgrounds accom...