Eivind Torgersen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Eivind Torgersen plays a role.

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Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

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Studies of L2 oral task performance report fluency as critical for functional adequacy, with pausing behaviors emerging as strong predictors of functionally adequate speech. The present study investigated the extent to which the type and location of pausing is related to functional adequacy.… read more
Ekiert, Monika, Sofia Lampropoulou, Andrea Révész and Eivind Torgersen 2018 Chapter 10. The effects of task type and L2 proficiency on discourse appropriacy in oral task performanceTask-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics, Taguchi, Naoko and YouJin Kim (eds.), pp. 248–263 | Chapter
Conceived within the TBLT framework, the present study examined pedagogic tasks as vehicles for demonstrating L2 learners’ discourse appropriacy in oral production. Eighty ESL learners’ discourse appropriacy was measured using three pragmatically-oriented task types (complaint, refusal, and advice)… read more
Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland 2015 IntroductionLanguage Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Article
Fox, Sue, Arfaan Khan and Eivind Torgersen 2011 The emergence and diffusion of Multicultural EnglishEthnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 19–44 | Article
We draw on the observation that many features of new urban language varieties in multilingual contexts do not seem to be associated with any one particular ethnic group. Rather, many young speakers draw on and share at least a portion of the wide linguistic resources reflecting the ethnically mixed… read more