Becoming a Member in Social Worlds
: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions, Skogmyr Marian, Klara and Simona Pekarek Doehler (eds.), pp. 132–167 | ArticleZachary Nanbu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zachary Nanbu is involved.
Articles
2025 Occasioning and re-occasioning learnables in a cooking class
This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to explore “re-occasionings” in multilingual interaction recorded at a cooking school in Okinawa, Japan. We first examine the initial occurrence of a phrase that is treated as learnable by the recipients. We then consider how successive… read more
2025 Simple language, sophisticated actions: Sequence-initiating actions by novice English users in an educational context Pragmatics and Society 16:6, pp. 777–805 | Article
Drawing on video-recorded data from an educational institution called Tokyo Global Gateway, we investigate how visiting students use English for sequence-initiating actions addressed either to a teacher (called an agent) or other students. As the students usually use Japanese to address another… read more