Abstracts Archive

In this contribution we will present a longitudinal study of discourses on French held by young people in vocational training for manual professions during peer interactions. Our data come from a project in applied linguistics whose aim is to test the use of corpora for teaching interaction competen...

Breaking bad news is inevitable for prospective doctors, it is important for medical students to learn how to humanely communicate devastating news to patients. This study explores the discourse strategies used by Chinese medical students when conducting critical conversations via role-play scenario...

Using conversation analysis, this study traces the development of interactional competence by a novice guest-relation officer at a hotel in Vietnam in her interactions with guests in English as a lingua franca. Our data include 110 audio-recorded guest-escorting walks over 10 months. Close examinati...

Although meetings are becoming more frequent in professional situations, participants are still poorly prepared in their training for this exchange format, which nevertheless directly conditions their work. If they are invited to a meeting, whatever their qualification or status, they encounter diff...