Negotiation of meaning and resolution strategies in virtual exchanges: an analysis of elf synchronous audiovisual interactions

• Autores: Patricia Guill Garcia
• Directores de la Tesis: Begoña Clavel Arroitia (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat de València ( España ) en 2025
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Martine Derivry-Plard (presid.), Barry Pennock-Speck (secret.), Patricia Salazar Campillo (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Lenguas, Literaturas y Culturas, y sus Aplicaciones por la Universitat de València (Estudi General) y la Universitat Politècnica de València
• Materias:
  • Lingüística
    • Lingüística aplicada
      • Lengua y literatura
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TESEO
• Resumen

  • The main objective of this doctoral dissertation is to scrutinise and describe the NoM episodes encountered in seven audiovisual English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) interactions between students from Spanish and Japanese universities. While said NoM episodes have been extensively explored in literature within the field of Virtual Exchanges (VE), it may be observed that few studies address the features of NoM in audiovisual online interaction. Due to the valuable affordances offered by both VE approaches and NoM as an interactive phenomenon, it was deemed necessary to examine these further.

    To do so, aside from reconfirming the presence of NoM episodes, a categorisation of the triggers encountered by students and their degree of resolution was carried out. This analysis emphasised the relevance of NoM episodes in audiovisual VE practices and revealed further details on the nature of communication issues in said contexts. Additionally, a detailed exploration of NoM processes was undertaken by identifying the resolution strategies employed by both national cohorts involved in the partnership through the application of an expansion of the model formulated by Clavel-Arroitia (2008, 2019) to this end.

    The findings obtained not only emphasise the relevance of NoM processes in audiovisual VEs, but also the complexity of trigger resolution in interactions where multiple factors - proficiency levels, culturally influenced behaviours, task type, etc. - intertwine.

    Thus, this study provides profound insights into VEs and NoM that may address the diverse gaps in research and methodological issues encountered in previous studies.