Johannes Wagner's Lecture and Workshop in December 2000

In December Dr. Johannes Wagner, from Odense University or the University of Southern Demark, held a lecture and a workshop at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo.

Address inquiries to Aug Nishizaka.

Schedule

Graduate Colloquium of Meiji Gakuin University

• December 1
  15:00 - 18:00
• #1359 on the 3rd floor in Main Building
• Title:
  

  Language choice in international telephone conversations

• Abstract:
  

  International telephone conversations are an everyday activity for a large community of professionals, as well as in the private sphere at least in Europe. We may expect that callers will have developed techniques to cope with any additional tasks that these calls may pose in a highly routinised manner. In this paper, we will investigate, how participants in international calls solve the task of language choice, which is additional to the routinely performed opening tasks.

Workshop

• December 2
  10:30 - 12:30
• #1554 on the 5th floor in Main Building
• Demonstration of the CHAT software (shareware) which connects audio, video and transcriptions and has a special version for CA work.

Dr. Wagner's publications include:

• 1996. "Foreign language acquisition through interaction-- A critical review of research on conversational adjustments." Journal of Pragmatics 26: 215-235.
• 1995. "'Negotiating activity' in technical problem solving. In Alan Firth, ed. The discourse of negotiation. London: Pergamon Press: 223-246.
• 1997. Co-authored with Alan Firth. "On discourse, communication, and (some) fundamental concepts in SLA research." The Modern Language Journal 81(3): 285-300.