PD Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaft): Emergent multilingual practices in Transient International Groups (TIGs): Micro-diachronic analysis of ELF interactions in VOICE
21.06.2022 16-18Uhr
online
Whenever groups of speakers meet for the first time or are inherently fluctuating, linguistic practices and pragmatic conventions cannot simply be taken for granted. This observation holds true for English as a lingua franca (ELF) situations, but also for many other contexts. Over the past two decades, descriptive studies on ELF communication have demonstrated that the specific linguistic forms that ELF use takes are influenced by the situationality of an encounter. Although processes like accommodative convergence and use of multilingual elements recur in many ELF settings, factors like context, group size or constellation of speakers’ multilingual repertoires affect how these recurring processes actually manifest in a particular interaction (e.g. which forms speakers accommodate to).
This talk builds on the notion of Transient International Groups (TIGs) (Pitzl 2018) and analyzes data from VOICE (Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English) in order to examine emergent multilingual practices in ELF encounters. It provides detailed empirical descriptions that illustrate the emergence of group-specific multilingual practices in different TIGs. In doing so, the talk introduces principles of adopting a micro-diachronic approach to the analysis of spoken interaction.
Verantwortlich für die Redaktion:
Carolin Dix
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