Tim Greer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Greer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Greer |
| SIGNATURE | GREER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4460-6381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Giving directions in virtual reality: Resources for managing fragmented perception
Fractured ecologies impact how participants formulate and follow instructions. • Direction-giving is adapted to the affordances and constraints of the VR app. • Documents interactional work for achieving shared reference and spatial orientation. • Users establish shared reference via avatar-simulated embodiment. Interaction in Virtual Reality (VR) environments can be challenging when spatial orientation between participants is not mutually shared…
Recruitment During Table-Cooked Meals: Foregrounding and Backgrounding Offers and Acts of Assistance Within Multi-Party Talk
At Japanese yakiniku-style restaurants, customers grill meat at the table and then often offer it to each other. Such offers are a form of recruitment—the outcome of various interactional methods for eliciting or soliciting involvement. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis, this study focuses on sequences of lingua franca English talk between three Japanese people and their French guest in one such restaurant setting. The analysis explores…
Embodied Mapping: Negotiating Epistemic Access during Initial Place Reference
This study explores the negotiation of locational epistemic access during initial reference sequences through embodied mapping, a practice in which co-participants (re)construct geographical maps by using their bodies and the space around them in concert with talk. Like a physical map, an embodied map becomes a mutually available resource that can be scrutinized or amended and therefore constitutes a resource for managing intersubjectivity and ad…
Creating Obstacles to Progressivity: Task Expansion in Second Language Role‐Plays
One way that language educators can extend a role‐play is by adding a complication to encourage the learner say more. This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to explore such obstacles to progressivity among Japanese learners of English at an experiential language learning facility. We first examine an interactional practice in which the educator orients to a learner contribution as misaligned and creates a role‐play‐specific basis for re…
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking
This study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to emically account for moments in second language (L2) English interaction in which speakers appear to be visualizing text as they talk. One way they do this is by slotting out elements of a turn‐in‐progress in the air, shifting their hand in a slotting gesture from left to right as they say each word to display to their recipient that they are visualizing certain elements of the turn. In othe…
Accomplishing multiethnic identity in mundane talk: Half-Japanese teenagers at an international school
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 Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) to document three instances of mundane talk in which such multiethnic Japanese teenagers are ethnified through the use…
The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership
Study abroad homestays are generally assumed to provide visitors with opportunities to learn language ‘in the wild’ by participating in the host family’s everyday life. Ultimately such participation is accomplished via individual episodes of interaction as the visitor is socialized into the family’s mundane routines and rituals. Building on research into second language interaction in the lifeworlds of learners beyond the classroom, this study co…
How do raters understand rubrics for assessing L2 interactional engagement? A comparative study of CA- and non-CA-formulated performance descriptors
While paired student discussion tests in EFL contexts are often graded using rubrics with broad descriptors, an alternative approach constructs the rubric via extensive written descriptions of video-recorded exemplary cases at each performance level. With its long history of deeply descriptive observation of interaction, Conversation Analysis (CA) is one apt tool for constructing such exemplar-based rubrics; but to what extent are non-CA speciali…
Initiating and delivering news of the day: Interactional competence as joint-development
Naming an activity: Arriving at recognitionals in team-teacher planning talk
Scandinavian bilingual and L2 interaction: A view from afar
Who better to write a concluding commentary on a collection of Scandinavian studies than an Australian living in Japan? While I was honored to be asked, my immediate reaction was, What do I know about Scandinavia? My entire experience with the region to date consists of a week in Sweden and a 2-h stopover in Copenhagen. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that an outsider could perhaps offer a broadening perspective on the questi…
Word search sequences in bilingual interaction: Codeswitching and embodied orientation toward shifting participant constellations
Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair
Speakers often perform impromptu translations during bilingual interaction. Such translations can hold a wide variety of socio-pragmatic functions including reiteration, emphasis, recasting, and repair. When translations occur in multi-party talk where the interactants are of mixed linguistic proficiencies, they may also serve to include interlocutors who have been excluded from prior talk that was delivered in their weaker language. In this resp…
Word search sequences in bilingual interaction: Codeswitching and embodied orientation toward shifting participant constellations
Initiating and delivering news of the day: Interactional competence as joint-development
Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair
Speakers often perform impromptu translations during bilingual interaction. Such translations can hold a wide variety of socio-pragmatic functions including reiteration, emphasis, recasting, and repair. When translations occur in multi-party talk where the interactants are of mixed linguistic proficiencies, they may also serve to include interlocutors who have been excluded from prior talk that was delivered in their weaker language. In this resp…
Naming an activity: Arriving at recognitionals in team-teacher planning talk
The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership
Study abroad homestays are generally assumed to provide visitors with opportunities to learn language ‘in the wild’ by participating in the host family’s everyday life. Ultimately such participation is accomplished via individual episodes of interaction as the visitor is socialized into the family’s mundane routines and rituals. Building on research into second language interaction in the lifeworlds of learners beyond the classroom, this study co…
Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair
Speakers often perform impromptu translations during bilingual interaction. Such translations can hold a wide variety of socio-pragmatic functions including reiteration, emphasis, recasting, and repair. When translations occur in multi-party talk where the interactants are of mixed linguistic proficiencies, they may also serve to include interlocutors who have been excluded from prior talk that was delivered in their weaker language. In this resp…
Scandinavian bilingual and L2 interaction: A view from afar
Who better to write a concluding commentary on a collection of Scandinavian studies than an Australian living in Japan? While I was honored to be asked, my immediate reaction was, What do I know about Scandinavia? My entire experience with the region to date consists of a week in Sweden and a 2-h stopover in Copenhagen. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that an outsider could perhaps offer a broadening perspective on the questi…
Word search sequences in bilingual interaction: Codeswitching and embodied orientation toward shifting participant constellations
Naming an activity: Arriving at recognitionals in team-teacher planning talk
Initiating and delivering news of the day: Interactional competence as joint-development
How do raters understand rubrics for assessing L2 interactional engagement? A comparative study of CA- and non-CA-formulated performance descriptors
While paired student discussion tests in EFL contexts are often graded using rubrics with broad descriptors, an alternative approach constructs the rubric via extensive written descriptions of video-recorded exemplary cases at each performance level. With its long history of deeply descriptive observation of interaction, Conversation Analysis (CA) is one apt tool for constructing such exemplar-based rubrics; but to what extent are non-CA speciali…
The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership
Study abroad homestays are generally assumed to provide visitors with opportunities to learn language ‘in the wild’ by participating in the host family’s everyday life. Ultimately such participation is accomplished via individual episodes of interaction as the visitor is socialized into the family’s mundane routines and rituals. Building on research into second language interaction in the lifeworlds of learners beyond the classroom, this study co…
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking
This study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to emically account for moments in second language (L2) English interaction in which speakers appear to be visualizing text as they talk. One way they do this is by slotting out elements of a turn‐in‐progress in the air, shifting their hand in a slotting gesture from left to right as they say each word to display to their recipient that they are visualizing certain elements of the turn. In othe…
Accomplishing multiethnic identity in mundane talk: Half-Japanese teenagers at an international school
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 Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) to document three instances of mundane talk in which such multiethnic Japanese teenagers are ethnified through the use…
Creating Obstacles to Progressivity: Task Expansion in Second Language Role‐Plays
One way that language educators can extend a role‐play is by adding a complication to encourage the learner say more. This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to explore such obstacles to progressivity among Japanese learners of English at an experiential language learning facility. We first examine an interactional practice in which the educator orients to a learner contribution as misaligned and creates a role‐play‐specific basis for re…
Embodied Mapping: Negotiating Epistemic Access during Initial Place Reference
This study explores the negotiation of locational epistemic access during initial reference sequences through embodied mapping, a practice in which co-participants (re)construct geographical maps by using their bodies and the space around them in concert with talk. Like a physical map, an embodied map becomes a mutually available resource that can be scrutinized or amended and therefore constitutes a resource for managing intersubjectivity and ad…
Recruitment During Table-Cooked Meals: Foregrounding and Backgrounding Offers and Acts of Assistance Within Multi-Party Talk
At Japanese yakiniku-style restaurants, customers grill meat at the table and then often offer it to each other. Such offers are a form of recruitment—the outcome of various interactional methods for eliciting or soliciting involvement. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis, this study focuses on sequences of lingua franca English talk between three Japanese people and their French guest in one such restaurant setting. The analysis explores…
Giving directions in virtual reality: Resources for managing fragmented perception
Fractured ecologies impact how participants formulate and follow instructions. • Direction-giving is adapted to the affordances and constraints of the VR app. • Documents interactional work for achieving shared reference and spatial orientation. • Users establish shared reference via avatar-simulated embodiment. Interaction in Virtual Reality (VR) environments can be challenging when spatial orientation between participants is not mutually shared…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Communication (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Conversation (8 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (8 works) · Conversation analysis (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Communication (6 works)