Eric Hauser (University of Electro-communications, Japan, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA) focuses on one instance of Japanese interaction in which one of the participants, an L2 user of Japanese, is constructed by other participants (L1 Japanese users) as interactionally incompetent. Multi-modal Conversation Analysis is used to explicate how this is accomplished and implications for L2 interactional competence are discussed.
The Construction of Interactional Incompetence in L2 Interaction