G Kasper
Biographic Data
| ID | 26384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Kasper |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Kasper |
| SIGNATURE | KASPER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5771-8679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Conversation Analysis and Interview Studies
Conversation analysis (CA) approaches any kind of interview from a set of empirically grounded premises.
Orlando e a Verdade do ser independente
Student essays as evidential resource in placement meetings
The social life of methods: Introducing the special issue
Transforming instruction to activity: Roleplay in language assessment
Roleplay is used as a method for education and training, assessment, and research across a wide range of academic and occupational domains, including applied linguistics. In the assessment of speaking and pragmatic competence, roleplay is used to examine how test takers produce and understand social action-in-interaction and in this way overcomes the problem of “construct under-representation”. Roleplay is also chosen for assessment purposes beca…
Achieving epistemic alignment in a psycholinguistic experiment
A critical condition for obtaining valid data in a psycholinguistic experiment is that the participants understand how to perform the experimental tasks. Participants usually are not familiar with the organization and requirements of the experiment and are therefore given instruction and often practice opportunities prior to the actual test trials. Pre-experimental instruction is a regular component of the experimental set-up, yet no research exi…
Speaking in turns and sequences: Interactional competence as a target construct in testing speaking
In the assessment of speaking, a psycholinguistically based speaking construct has predominated. In this paper, we argue for the integration of the construct of interactional competence (IC) in speaking assessments to broaden the range of defensible inferences from speaking tests. IC emphasizes the co-constructed nature of interaction and enables the rating of L2 users’ ability to deploy interactional tools that lead to shared understandings. Rec…
Explaining Hooke’s Law: Definitional Practices in a CLIL Physics Classroom
This article examines how a teacher in a Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) program engages in various definitional practices during a plenary episode in a physics class taught in English in Finland. The episode focuses on explaining Hooke’s law, which involves defining its key concepts and their relations as instructable matters. Using multimodal conversation analysis, the article shows how the teacher accomplishes definitions and d…
Focus on Form in the Wild
Like Godzilla: Enactments and formulations in telling a disaster story in Japanese
The chapter examines how a second language speaker of Japanese tells a disaster story to an L1 Japanese-speaking recipient in ordinary conversation. Drawing on Goodwin’s (2013) notions of lamination and substrates, the study shows how the teller and recipient orient to the story as a stance object by selecting, assembling, and recycling different types of multisemiotic resources, including language forms, cultural references, prosody, ideophonic …
You said that?”: Other-initiations of repair addressed to represented talk
This paper examines a topic that has not gained much analytic attention in research on represented talk: how recipients respond, and how their responses shape the ongoing interaction. Using conversation analysis, we investigate responses to represented talk in complaint stories told in autobiographical interviews. Supportive recipient actions are the most common, but on occasion the recipient other-initiates repair on the quoted talk. These other…
Analyzing Storytelling In Tesol Interview Research
Autobiographic research interviews have become an accepted and valued method of qualitative inquiry in TESOL and applied linguistics more broadly. In recent discussions surrounding the epistemological treatment of autobiographic stories, TESOL researchers have increasingly called for more attention to the ways in which stories are embedded in interaction and thus are bound up with the social contexts of their production. This paper advances these…
Conversation Analysis in Applied Linguistics
For the last decade, conversation analysis (CA) has increasingly contributed to several established fields in applied linguistics. In this article, we will discuss its methodological contributions. The article distinguishes between basic and applied CA. Basic CA is a sociological endeavor concerned with understanding fundamental issues of talk in action and of intersubjectivity in human conduct. The field has expanded its scope from the analysis …
In memoriam: Craig Chaudron
International audience
Multiple questions in oral proficiency interviews
Transfer and proficiency in interlanguage apologizing
Beyond Repair: Conversation Analysis as an Approach to SLA
As one of several approaches to SLA as social practice, Conversation Analysis (CA) has the capacity to examine in detail how opportunities for L2 learning arise in different interactional activities. Its particular strength, and one that distinguishes it from other social practice approaches, is its consistent focus on the orientations and relevancies that participants display to each other through their interactional conduct. CA thus affords a d…
When once is not enough: Politeness of multiple requests in oral proficiency interviews
The paper takes a conversation-analytic approach to examine the politeness of multiple requests in Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPI). In this assessment activity, interviewers regularly reissue a first request in environments of increased task demands or in response to candidates' difficulties with the first directive. In such multiple request sequences, two kinds of structurally parallel operations of mitigation and conventionally indirect reque…
Classroom Talks: An Introduction
Participant Orientations in German Conversation‐for‐Learning
This article explores some roles for conversation analysis (CA) as an approach to second and foreign language learning by examining the initial segment of a Gesprächsrunde , a dyadic conversation‐for‐learning conducted between a beginning learner of German as a foreign language and a native speaker of German. The analysis focuses on the situated identities, comprising social membership categories as well as interaction‐internal participant status…
Speech acts in (inter)action: Repeated questions
Social actions performed through language are the focal object of research on speech act realization (speech act research,1 for short) and conversation analysis, among other approaches to discourse that I will not consider here. Yet because of their di¤erent disciplinary origins and histories, the two approaches are interested in di¤erent aspects of social action mediated through language and, specifically, through talk. Speech act research is pr…
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Individual Differences in L2 Pragmatic Development
Epilogue
Introduction to Second Language Pragmatic Development
Linguistic politeness
Pragmatic transfer
Throughout the short life of interlanguage pragmatics as a subdiscipline of second language research, it has been a virtually uncontested assumption that non-native speakers' comprehension and production of linguistic action is considerably influenced by their L1 pragmatic knowledge. The literature strongly supports this hypothesis. However, whereas there has been a lively controversy about the role of transfer in the traditional core areas of se…
Two Ways of Defining Communication Strategies
Two recently formulated definitions of communication strategies are contrasted. According to Tarone's "interactional" definition, the central function of communication strategies is the negotiation of meaning. According to the "psycholinguistic" definition suggested by Færch and Kasper. communication strategies are related to individual language users' experience of communicative problems and the solutions (cooperative or noncooperative) they pur…
Pragmatic Comprehension in Learner-native Speaker Discourse
The paper reports on an exploratory study on FL learners'comprehension of speech acts and discourse functions, referred to as pragmatic comprehension. On the basis of a frame-theoretical approach, some theoretical assumptions and empirical findings about L1 pragmatic comprehension are discussed. These are used as a framework for analyzing two types of learners'pragmatic misunderstandings: their failure to distinguish between phatic talk and refer…
Conversation Analysis in Applied Linguistics
For the last decade, conversation analysis (CA) has increasingly contributed to several established fields in applied linguistics. In this article, we will discuss its methodological contributions. The article distinguishes between basic and applied CA. Basic CA is a sociological endeavor concerned with understanding fundamental issues of talk in action and of intersubjectivity in human conduct. The field has expanded its scope from the analysis …
Multiple questions in oral proficiency interviews
Analyzing Storytelling In Tesol Interview Research
Autobiographic research interviews have become an accepted and valued method of qualitative inquiry in TESOL and applied linguistics more broadly. In recent discussions surrounding the epistemological treatment of autobiographic stories, TESOL researchers have increasingly called for more attention to the ways in which stories are embedded in interaction and thus are bound up with the social contexts of their production. This paper advances these…
Speech acts in (inter)action: Repeated questions
Social actions performed through language are the focal object of research on speech act realization (speech act research,1 for short) and conversation analysis, among other approaches to discourse that I will not consider here. Yet because of their di¤erent disciplinary origins and histories, the two approaches are interested in di¤erent aspects of social action mediated through language and, specifically, through talk. Speech act research is pr…
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies
Bibliography on linguistic politeness
When once is not enough: Politeness of multiple requests in oral proficiency interviews
The paper takes a conversation-analytic approach to examine the politeness of multiple requests in Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPI). In this assessment activity, interviewers regularly reissue a first request in environments of increased task demands or in response to candidates' difficulties with the first directive. In such multiple request sequences, two kinds of structurally parallel operations of mitigation and conventionally indirect reque…
Introduction to Second Language Pragmatic Development
Analysing Verbal Protocols
A single verbal protocol is not an island to itself, but a link in a whole chain of evidence, stretching far into the past and the future, that gradually develops, molds, and modifies our scientific theories. It needs to be processed with full attention to these linkages. (Ericsson & Simon, 1993, p. 280)
Bilingual education and bilingualism in education: A comment
Approaches to Developmental Pragmatics Research
The Role of Instruction in Learning Second Language Pragmatics
Ein Zellenboden am Kilimanjaro: Beobachtungen mit Hilfe der Nahbereichsfotogrammetrie
No abstract available
Politeness Markers in English and German
Pragmatic Knowledge: Rules and Procedures
CLAUS FAERCH, GABRIELE KASPER; Pragmatic Knowledge: Rules and Procedures, Applied Linguistics, Volume 5, Issue 3, 1 October 1984, Pages 214–225, https://do
Learning the Pragmatics of Discourse: A Project Report
WILLIS EDMONDSON, JULIANE HOUSE, GABRIELE KASPER, BRIGITTE STEMMER; Learning the Pragmatics of Discourse: A Project Report, Applied Linguistics, Volume 5
Two Ways of Defining Communication Strategies
Two recently formulated definitions of communication strategies are contrasted. According to Tarone's "interactional" definition, the central function of communication strategies is the negotiation of meaning. According to the "psycholinguistic" definition suggested by Færch and Kasper. communication strategies are related to individual language users' experience of communicative problems and the solutions (cooperative or noncooperative) they pur…
Pragmatic Comprehension in Learner-native Speaker Discourse
The paper reports on an exploratory study on FL learners'comprehension of speech acts and discourse functions, referred to as pragmatic comprehension. On the basis of a frame-theoretical approach, some theoretical assumptions and empirical findings about L1 pragmatic comprehension are discussed. These are used as a framework for analyzing two types of learners'pragmatic misunderstandings: their failure to distinguish between phatic talk and refer…
The Role of Comprehension in Second-language Learning
CLAUS FÆERCH, GABRIELE KASPER; The Role of Comprehension in Second-language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1 October 1986, Pages 257–274
Bilingual education and bilingualism in education: A comment
Linguistic politeness
Research Methods in Interlanguage Pragmatics
The article reviews the methods of data collection employed in 39 studies of interlanguage pragmatics, defined narrowly as the investigation of nonnative speakers' comprehension and production of speech acts, and the acquisition of L2-related speech act knowledge. Data collection instruments are distinguished according to the degree to which they constrain informants' responses, and whether they tap speech act perception/comprehension or producti…
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies
Pragmatic transfer
Throughout the short life of interlanguage pragmatics as a subdiscipline of second language research, it has been a virtually uncontested assumption that non-native speakers' comprehension and production of linguistic action is considerably influenced by their L1 pragmatic knowledge. The literature strongly supports this hypothesis. However, whereas there has been a lively controversy about the role of transfer in the traditional core areas of se…
Bibliography on linguistic politeness
Developmental Issues in Interlanguage Pragmatics
Unlike other areas of second language study, which are primarily concerned with acquisitional patterns of interlanguage knowledge over time, most studies in interlanguage pragmatics have focused on second language use rather than second language learning. The aim of this paper is to profile interlanguage pragmatics as an area of inquiry in second language acquisition research, by reviewing existing studies with a focus on learning, examining rese…
Effect of Rejoinders in Production Questionnaires
Validation of data collection instruments must be a primary research concern in any subfield of applied linguistics Such concerns are particularly urgent when the collected material is inherently context-sensitive In interlanguage pragmatics research, the most frequently used instrument for data collection is some form of production questionnaire (PQ) While some studies have been conducted on the validity of PQs as compared to authentic and other…
Analysing Verbal Protocols
A single verbal protocol is not an island to itself, but a link in a whole chain of evidence, stretching far into the past and the future, that gradually develops, molds, and modifies our scientific theories. It needs to be processed with full attention to these linkages. (Ericsson & Simon, 1993, p. 280)
Pragmatics in language teaching
Introduction By such milestones as the appearance of the Threshold Level for English (Van Ek, 1975) and Wilkins's Notional Syllabus (1976), communicative language teaching (CLT) has been with us for nearly three decades. A strong theoretical impetus for the development of CLT came from the social sciences and humanities outside language pedagogy. Different notions of communicative competence, proposed by Hymes from the perspective of linguistic a…
Four perspectives on L2 pragmatic development
L2 learners' development of pragmatic ability has been studied from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This paper seeks to assess the contributions made by different approaches to interlanguage pragmatics as a subfield of Second Language Acquisition. A first approach locates the development of pragmatic ability within a comprehensive model of communicative competence, either examining pragmatics as an autonomous component or in its interactio…
Individual Differences in L2 Pragmatic Development
Epilogue
Introduction to Second Language Pragmatic Development
The Development of Pragmatics and Grammar
Approaches to Developmental Pragmatics Research
Learning Context and Learning Opportunities
The Role of Instruction in Learning Second Language Pragmatics
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