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 | ArticleTim Greer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tim Greer is involved.
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
2023 Grammar-in-Interaction and its place in assessing interactional competence Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Special issue of the journal of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023), Betz, Emma, Taiane Malabarba and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 202–207 | Commentary
2016 On doing Japanese awe in English talk Emotion in Multilingual Interaction, Prior, Matthew T. and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), pp. 111–130 | Article
This study investigates how Japanese novice L2 speakers of English employ prosodic variations of the receipt particle oh to socially accomplish awe in L2 interaction. In addition to marking changes in epistemic states (Heritage 1984), these participants also produced oh in ways that mark their… read more
2012 Accomplishing multiethnic identity in mundane talk: Half-Japanese teenagers at an international school Pragmatics 22:3, pp. 371–390 | Article
This paper examines identity-related interaction in a group of teenagers at an international school in Japan, focusing particularly on the discursive accomplishment of multiethnic identity among so-called half-Japanese (or “haafu”) people. The study employs Conversation Analysis (CA) and… read more