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Native Speaker Stance-Taking In A Multinational Conference Call, Vanessa Cristina Revheim Cunha
Native Speaker Stance-Taking In A Multinational Conference Call, Vanessa Cristina Revheim Cunha
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The present study examines the stance-taking measures of a native speaker director in a conference call, focusing on social contexts where foreign speakers are also involved. The transcript used in this study is comprised of a global departmental team meeting call from a multinational company based in Austin, TX. Subjects are native and nonnative co-workers or specialists in the field of home vacation rental and a native director. The analysis aims at finding what different stance-taking measures are enacted by the director throughout this conference call, what linguistic strategies are used to claim authority, and whether different strategies or stances …
English-Swahili Code Switching: An Intersection Between Stance And Identity, Gorrety Nafula Wawire
English-Swahili Code Switching: An Intersection Between Stance And Identity, Gorrety Nafula Wawire
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The current study seeks to answer the questions of how and why bilinguals code switch as this are the essential questions that need to be addressed when looking at linguistic patterns of bilinguals. This study also incorporates stance, as a great tool for analysis of ways in which we can predict motivations for CS in bilinguals. In an endeavor to explain the language patterns in English-Swahili bilinguals in Memphis and Tallahassee Florida in the United States of America. The following study address how and why bilinguals code switch, and how different stance taking measures brings out the speaker identities. The …