Full Description
Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct of the 'community', that is, a group of people who come together for any number of reasons; e.g. geographical location, a common goal, a search for unity or bonding, or a particular set of circumstances. The authors address a wide range of topics such as dialogic skills as situated practice, the learning of culture, and the negotiation of identities between native speakers and L2 learners. This volume also investigates how native and non-native speakers learn various community-based aspects of dialogic interaction, such as how to interpret social contexts, stances, frames and gestures. Despite different methodologies and frameworks, the studies demonstrate that native speakers and L2 learners alike use multiple 'vocalizations' of a language.
Contents
1. Introduction: Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities (by Koike, Dale); 2. Language practice in dialogue; 3. The complex nature of Language-related Episodes (by Lyle, Cory); 4. Navigating the language-learning classroom without previous schooling: A case study of Li (by Hellermann, John); 5. Multimodality and coordinated participation in L2 interaction: A conversation-analytic perspective (by Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen); 6. Learning culture and identities through dialogue; 7. 'Tu no eres espanola': Teasing of L2 learners in host family communities of practice (by Shively, Rachel L.); 8. Exploring the complex nature of language and culture through intercultural dialogue: The case of Cultura (by Blyth, Carl S.); 9. Multilingual Eurovision meets plurilingual YouTube: Linguascaping discursive ontologies (by Thorne, Steven L.); 10. Learning practices of communities; 11. Dialogic knowledge building in learning communities: Discovering an electric circuit through collaborative learning (by Feller, Sebastian); 12. Artifacts, gestures and dispensable speech: Multimodality in teaching and learning a biology laboratory technique (by Mori, Junko); 13. Changing frames in native speaker and learner talk: Moving toward a shared dialogue (by Koike, Dale); 14. Transnational, transcultural, translingual communities of practice in flux (by Kunschak, Claudia); 15. About the authors; 16. Index
