Cases of Repair and Hearable Laughter in Korean-Japanese Non-Balanced Bilingual Conversation
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Drawing on conversation analysis (CA), this study examines Korean–Japanese bilingual conversation between non-balanced speakers who exhibit disparate competence in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages. In the absence of shared norms for code-switching (CS), abrupt CS and asymmetric linguistic expertise emerged as triggers of repairable. Nonetheless, participants restored jeopardized intersubjectivity by mobilizing various facilitative functions of CS, while reinforcing affiliation through hearable laughter in repair sequences. The very factors that initially induced trouble sources were also found to create opportunities for shared laughter. These findings highlight the potential risk of communication breakdown posed by abrupt CS and unstable L2 proficiency, while also supporting the view that treats CS not as a deficiency, but as an additional interactional resource for maintaining mutual understanding. The present study further contributes to CA-based research on bilingualism by providing one of the few empirical accounts of Korean-Japanese bilingual talk-in-interaction grounded in naturally occurring data.
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Drawing on conversation analysis (CA), this study examines Korean–Japanese bilingual conversation between non-balanced speakers who exhibit disparate competence in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages. In the absence of shared norms for code-switching (CS), abrupt CS and asymmetric linguistic expertise emerged as triggers of repairable. Nonetheless, participants restored jeopardized intersubjectivity by mobilizing various facilitative functions of CS, while reinforcing affiliation through hearable laughter in repair sequences. The very factors that initially induced trouble sources were also found to create opportunities for shared laughter. These findings highlight the potential risk of communication breakdown posed by abrupt CS and unstable L2 proficiency, while also supporting the view that treats CS not as a deficiency, but as an additional interactional resource for maintaining mutual understanding. The present study further contributes to CA-based research on bilingualism by providing one of the few empirical accounts of Korean-Japanese bilingual talk-in-interaction grounded in naturally occurring data.