著者

O'NEAL George オニール ジョージ

出版者

新潟大学大学院現代社会文化研究科「言語の普遍性と個別性」プロジェクト

雑誌

言語の普遍性と個別性 (ISSN:1884863X)

巻号頁・発行日

no.6, pp.47-61, 2015-03

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This is a conversation analytic study of the emergence of semiodiversity in vocabulary during English as a Lingua Franca interactions in Japan (Schegloff 2007; Seidlhofer 2011). Halliday (2007) makes a critical distinction between glossodiversity and semiodiversity in the development of varieties of English: glossodiversity refers to the emergence of new forms and functions in the vocabulary of varieties of English; semiodiversity, on the other hand, refers to the assignment of novel semantics to words that once expressed different meanings. Using sequential analysis, this study examines instances in which English as a Lingua Franca speakers negotiated the semiodiversity of a lexical item within a repair sequence. This study determines that negotiating semiodiversity in an interaction is an effective repair strategy for successful communication in English as a Lingua Franca.