Abstract
ABSTRACT Recent research on interactional competence has expanded our understanding of how second language (L2) speakers keep their talk organized despite gaps in their linguistic repertoire. This has attracted much attention to appropriateness in L2 talk while posing key questions regarding what counts as appropriate and how appropriateness is dynamically co-constructed by the participants in a conversation. The present study has addressed such questions via focusing on how intersubjectivity is achieved and maintained in intercultural L2 talk. The data for this research comprised video recordings of online intercultural interactions among Japanese and Taiwanese speakers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The findings of this conversation analytic study suggest that intersubjectivity is achieved and maintained in part through the participants' moment-by-moment shifts in their epistemic stance. Dynamic alternations between more knowledgeable and less knowledgeable stances were mainly achieved through fluid management of turn-taking as well as repair initiation and accomplishment.
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