'Translanguaging' Gestures and Onomatopoeia as Resources for Repairing the Problem

Satomi Kuroshima, Blagoja Dimoski, Tricia Okada, Yuri Jody Yujobo & Rasami Chaikul

In this paper, by drawing on
conversation analysis as a research framework to analyze data of first-time encounters
between Japanese participants and their foreign interlocutors in online settings,
we will investigate how non-typical translanguaging phenomenon are indeed made
observable and accountable for the purpose of their lived and coordinated courses of
actions. Special focus is placed on the participants’ use of gestures and onomatopoeic
expressions of their first language in the face of difficulties arising in spoken ELF
interactions. The results will demonstrate that such bodily and linguistic practices are
resources for the speaker’s action of repairing a problem as well as a means for the
recipient to help resolve interactional problems. In addition, the paper will contribute
to the body of knowledge by demonstrating how participants display their orientation to
shared agreement in translanguaging practices in ELF interactions such as repair.

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Principal Investigator.
This study is funded by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K00753.