Features of ELF interactions in travel blogs: Travelers doing interactional work

• María-José Luzón ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Zaragoza

     Universidad de Zaragoza

     Zaragoza, España

     
• Localización: Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos ( AELFE ), ISSN-e 2340-2784, ISSN 1139-7241, Nº. 31, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Issue on The Language of Tourism 2.0), págs. 127-148
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Características de las interacciones en ILF en los blogs de viaje: El trabajo interaccional de los viajeros
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  • español

    Los blogs de viajes constituyen una nueva plataforma donde los viajeros cuentan sus experiencias y comparten información e impresiones con sus lectores. La mayoría permiten comentarios, lo que posibilita la interacción social entre miembros de comunidades que comparten un interés por viajar. Con frecuencia se usa el Inglés como Lengua Franca, para facilitar la interacción entre interlocutores con lenguas maternas diferentes. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar las características de las interacciones en Inglés como Lengua Franca (ILF) en blogs de viajes y determinar las estrategias usadas por los participantes en las discusiones para negociar el significado y alcanzar mutua inteligibilidad. El corpus analizado está formado por 36 discusiones tomadas de 12 blogs donde participan hablantes de diferentes lenguas maternas. El corpus fue analizado de forma cualitativa para determinar si algunas estrategias usadas en interacciones en ILF (aceptar como normal, backchanneling, cambio de código, y metacomentarios) aparecen en los blogs de viajes y cómo contribuyen a la creación de la identidad y a construir solidaridad y cohesión grupal

  • English

    Travel blogs constitute a new platform where travelers can tell about their travel experiences and share information and impressions with their readers. Most travel blogs incorporate commenting capabilities, which enable social interaction among members of communities with shared traveling interests. English is most often used as a Lingua Franca, facilitating interaction among people with different L1 backgrounds and transcending the native/non-native distinction.

    The purpose of this research is to analyze the features of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) interactions in travel blogs and explore some strategies used by participants in blog discussions to achieve shared understanding and show belonging to an ELF community. The small corpus consists of 36 blog discussions taken from 12 blogs where the commenters belong to different L1 backgrounds. The corpus was analyzed qualitatively to determine whether some strategies used in ELF interactions (make it normal, backchanneling, codeswitching, and metacomments) occur in travel blogs and, if so, how they contribute to identity and community construction

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