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“A” Stands for Acquisition: A Response to Firth and Wagner
Author(s) -
KASPER GABRIELE
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1997.tb05483.x
Subject(s) - firth , citation , library science , history , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , oceanography , geology
taken-for-granted concepts in L2 research is well taken, and so is the admonition to tighten up our transcription practices when we work with conversational data. In my comments, I will focus on some positions advanced by the authors that I find problematic.1 First, I shall ruthlessly exploit my privileged knowledge of the first transcript that F&W reanalyzed. The continuation of this transcript was published in Faerch, Haastrup, and Phillipson (1984, p. 31). It reads as presented in Table 1: