‘Translanguaging’ gestures and onomatopoeia as a resource for repairing the problem with speaking

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

ENRICH 2021: 1st International Conference on ELF-aware Practices (Greece)

Hellenic Open University, Greece

Hellenic Open University, Greece

http://enrichproject.eu/news/146-welcome-to-enrich-2021

In this paper, we draw on conversation analysis as a research framework to analyze data of first-time encounters between Japanese participants and their foreign interlocutors in online settings. While use of non-linguistic expressions are apparent in translanguaging practices, this paper will investigate and highlight the participants’ use of gestures and onomatopoeic expressions with their first language in the face of difficulties arising in spoken ELF interactions. The results demonstrate that such bodily and linguistic practices are resources for a speaker’s action of repairing the problem as well as a means for the recipient to help resolve the interactional problem. In addition, the paper argues that in so doing, the participants display their orientation to different epistemic statuses relative to one another and in relation to one’s linguistic knowledge, while maintaining the speaker’s rights and obligations to produce a relevant next action, and thus orienting to the progressivity of ongoing interaction

Principal Investigator.
This is supported by JSPS Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (18K00753)