Interactional construction grammar approach to ELF
The case of I think it is construction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21754039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katarzyna Piątkowska (0000-0002-4924-5557, Nicolaus Copernicus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-62 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1578-7044 • E-ISSN: 1989-6131 |
| Publisher | Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.6018/ijes.559661 |
| OpenAlex | W7167151075 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
Recent discussion in linguistics indicates that English as a lingua franca can be analysed from the perspective of Construction Grammar (CxG). However, research on ELF has not focused on emerging patterns viewed as constructions. Instead, the majority of studies on spoken ELF so far have used Conversational Analysis to examine communication in ELF. Thus, in this paper spoken-language phenomena in ELF are viewed from the perspective of Interactional Construction Grammar (ICxG), which integrates CxG and Conversation Analysis. ICxG has been implemented only in research on conventional languages. The present study suggests that it can also be used in the analysis of spoken phenomena in ELF if we treat a turn as a construction. Therefore, the paper presents the results of a corpus-based study of I think it is construction in spoken ELF, demonstrating that it can be treated as a construction
Construction Grammar · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Discourse analysis · English as a lingua franca · Grammar · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy
Cognitive Grammar
English as a Lingua Franca in the International University
Culture and Identity through English as a Lingua Franca
Turn organization
Konstruktionen in der Interaktion
Construction Grammar meets Conversation
Von Konstruktionen zu kommunikativen Gattungen
How grammar grows out of social interaction
Interactional Construction Grammar
Different speakers, different grammars
Investigating the lexico-grammatical resources of a non-native user of English
The unit and focus of analysis in lingua franca English interactions
Construction Grammar and the corpus-based analysis of discourses
The nature of generalization in language
World Englishes and creative idioms in English as a lingua franca
Closing A Conceptual Gap
English as a lingua franca through a usage-based perspective
Flexibility and fluidity of grammar
Grammatical variability and the grammar of genre
Expectations for ‘natural’ ways of talking
Construction Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Constructionist approaches
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |