Wong2021b
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Wong2021b |
| Author(s) | Jean Wong |
| Title | Our Storied Lives: Doing and Finding Friendship II |
| Editor(s) | Jean Wong, Hansun Zhang Waring |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| City | New York |
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| Pages | 41–54 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429029240-5 |
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| Book title | Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective |
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Abstract
This chapter, the second part of a two-part sequel, uses conversation analysis to track the same L2 speaker as discussed in part one, now focusing on her responses and actions as a story-recipient rather than as a storyteller. This time, her co-participant is also a multilingual speaker, who tells a story about a recent doctor’s visit and a diagnosis of cancer. The teller’s story is limited, with little room for growth and development due to the recipients’ responses and actions that claim understanding of the telling but do not demonstrate it adequately. The recipient orients to the story in terms of alignment – i.e., progressivity – but does not demonstrate understanding of the story in terms of action, i.e., a troubles-telling, which is done to secure support and affiliation. Alignment and affiliation are separate matters in the data showcased although in L1/storytelling (L1/English) they tend to co-occur. Implications are linked with CA’s foundational principle of recipient-design and to a suggestion that L2 interactional competence be regarded as a variable phenomenon. Ties to how listening is taught in language classrooms are also addressed.
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