This study investigates how expert teachers of Chinese as a second language (CSL) shift the participation framework from a dyadic conversation between the teacher and an individual student (T-S) to a three-party conversation between the teacher, the individual student, and other students… read more
In this introduction to the special issue, we provide an overview of the features and development of key approaches to teacher-student interaction in second language (L2) classrooms (and tutoring sessions). Our goal is to emphasize the importance of (re)conceptualizing instructor-student… read more
In Mandarin conversation, utterances about future actions with severe consequences are observed to correlate with bigger promises, marked by devices indicating greater illocutionary force, as compared with those about actions with less serious consequences. Applying the principle of… read more
This paper investigates conversational actions accomplished by a knowing speaker who takes a non-committal epistemic stance using epistemic adverbs expressing uncertainty in Mandarin conversations. This study finds that adverbs of uncertainty such as keneng, yexu, and dagai, are used… read more