Johannes Wagner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Johannes Wagner is involved.
Title
2025 Becoming friends: Establishing social relations in L2 business calls
Becoming a Member in Social Worlds
: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions, Skogmyr Marian, Klara and Simona Pekarek Doehler (eds.), pp. 39–64 | Article This conversation analytic study draws on a longitudinal corpus of landline phone calls. The material under examination comprises seven calls in English made between 1987 and 1991 between J (English L2 speaker), a European spare part provider, and T, a representative of a British company. Over… read more
2024 Treating an error in another’s talk as laughable: Evidence from conversations involving second language speakers and speakers with aphasia New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, Selting, Margret and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 360–383 | Chapter
In this chapter we highlight a phenomenon evident in conversations involving second language (L2) speakers or speakers with aphasia. Following the production of certain errors by these “challenged” speakers, a co-participant not only corrects the error, but also treats it as laughable. We… read more
2014 Objects as tools for talk Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article
This paper deals with the touching, grasping, moving and handling of relatively small physical objects within spates of talk-in-interaction. We are interested in the organisation of such actions and the distribution of the objects amongst interactants in their unfolding activities, specifically in… read more
2010 Commentating fictive and real sports: Comments on Friederike Kern “Speaking dramatically: The prosody of radio live commentary of football matches” Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 239–242 | Article
And it’s Johnson – Johnson with the Quaffle (...) and she´s ducked Warrington, she´s passed Montague, she´s – ouch – been hit from behind by a Bludger from Crabbe ... Montague catches the Quaffle, Montague heading back up the pitch and – nice Bludger there from George Weasley, that’s a Bludger to… read more
2008 Intercultural pragmatics, language and society Unity and Diversity of Languages, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 155–173 | Article
2002 Language choice in international telephone conversations Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures, Luke, K.K. and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou (eds.), pp. 111–131 | Article
1996 Interaction-based studies of language: Introduction Interaction-based studies of language, Ford, Cecilia E. and Johannes Wagner (eds.), pp. 277–279 | Article