Embodiment, Semantics and Social Action: The Case of Object-Transfer in L2 Classroom Interaction
Using conversation analysis and usage-based linguistics, I focus on a beginning L2 user in an ESL classroom and trace his use of a “family of expressions” which, from the perspective of linguistic theory, are instantiations of either the ditransitive dative construction (e.g., “he told me the story”...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Communication |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.660674/full |