Interpersonal Positioning in English as a Lingua Franca Interactions (Routledge Research in Language and Communication)

Synopsis

This book offers a critical reflection on interpersonal positioning across both large- and small-scale contexts and highlights the multi-faceted nature of intercultural communication in today’s global world. The volume establishes positioning primarily as the negotiation of interpersonal relationships, and draws on concepts from across disciplines by way of reappraisal before applying them to two specific domains: MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) and private ELF couple interaction. While acknowledging and showcasing the unique features of positioning in these two contexts, Klötzl and Swoboda point to their commonalities by looking at how language and specifically English is used as a communicative resource in lingua franca situations. The book also identifies new directions for future methodological innovations in that it demonstrates how the same interaction can be looked at in methodologically-different ways and how the authors’ own positions projected on to such interaction create an integrated tri-partite perspective on the two domains. Shedding light on interpersonal positioning in different contexts and in turn on global communication more generally, this book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in discourse analysis, pragmatics, computer-mediated communication, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

166 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000769340

Related ISBNs:

9780429282805, 9781000769289, 9780367244897, 9781032083094, 9781000769227

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

09/20/24

Copyrighted By:

Svitlana Klötzl & Birgit Swoboda

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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