Søren W. Eskildsen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Søren W. Eskildsen is involved.
2026 Chapter 8. Second language learning as local and long-term process in and for social interaction Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: In honour of Heike Behrens, Madlener-Charpentier, Karin, Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Mirjam Weder and Annelies Häcki Buhofer (eds.), pp. 224–247 | Chapter
Drawing on conversation analysis and usage-based models of language, this chapter is part of larger on-going projects exploring the social-local worlds of second language (L2) speakers’ daily lives and investigating and mapping out their L2 learning, in situ and over time. The projects describe… read more
2025 The road of second language discovery Language, Interaction and Acquisition 16:2, pp. 199–228 | Article
The point of departure for this position paper is that social interaction is the primordial scene of human social life (Schegloff, 1987). It follows from this observation that it is also the primary setting for learning a second language (L2), which implies that studying the complexities of L2… read more
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
2018 Chapter 4. L2 talk as social accomplishment Speaking in a Second Language, Alonso, Rosa Alonso (ed.), pp. 69–103 | Chapter
This position paper builds on ethnomethodological conversation analysis to make a number of interrelated, empirically derived claims about speaking a second language and learning to do it as a social endeavor. We will show that: (1) language is primarily action, that linguistic units are… read more