Model United Nations Corpus and Conversation Analysis

这个为期3年的项目研究了日本非英语母语者在国际大学模拟联合国（MUN）与母语和其他非英语母语者谈判时所缺乏的东西。本研究分三个阶段完成：1）通过对非英语母语者的英语谈判教材进行批判性评价，确定所针对的词汇，语法和功能，理论基础和数据来源。2)学者们与口语语料库专家合作，开始构建四个语料库。通过对日本、欧洲和亚洲的英语母语者和非英语母语者的模拟联合国谈判数据进行收集; 3）通过应用会话分析，我们能够了解模拟联合国谈判中的社会行为是如何在语言方面进行包装和交付的。

This 3-year project examined what Japanese non-native-English speakers negotiating at international university Model United Nations (MUN) with native and other non-native speakers of English are lacking. This research was accomplished in three stages: 1) By critically evaluating English ELT materials on negotiation for non-native English speakers-identifying what vocabulary, grammar and functions are being targeted, the rationale and data sources. 2) Scholars collaborated with spoken corpus experts and four corpora began to be constructed. MUN negotiation data was collected from native English speakers and non-native English speakers in Japan, Europe and Asia; 3) Through applied conversation analysis, an analytical framework studying the orders of talk-in-interaction, we were able to learn how social acts in MUN negotiation are packaged and delivered in linguistic terms.