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- Title
Pointing backward and forward.
- Authors
Pauletto, Franco; Bardel, Camilla
- Abstract
In this study, we analyze the kind of actions L1 and L2 speakers of Italian perform by prefacing their responsive turns with the discourse marker be’. As a baseline, the article begins with an analysis of how native speakers of Italian use be’. We then carry out quantitative and qualitative analyses of the use of be’ in a number of L2 learners at different proficiency levels from three data sets of different types of interactions between students and native speakers of Italian. In the qualitative analysis, we adopt a conversation analytic perspective. The results suggest that both native speakers and L2 speakers, from intermediate to advanced level, perform a variety of social actions by be’-prefacing their responsive turns.
- Subjects
DISCOURSE markers; ITALIAN language; QUALITATIVE research; LANGUAGE transfer (Language learning); CONVERSATION analysis
- Publication
Language, Interaction & Acquisition / Langage, Interaction et Acquisition, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
1879-7865
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/lia.7.1.04pau