Model United Nations Corpus and Conversation Analysis

这个为期三年的项目研究了在国际大学模拟联合国（MUN）上，日本非英语母语人士与英语母语人士和其他非英语母语人士谈判所缺乏的东西。本研究分三个阶段完成：1)通过批判性地评估非英语母语人士的谈判英语教材——确定目标词汇、语法和功能，基本原理和数据来源。2)学者与口语语料库专家合作，开始构建四个语料库。模拟联合国谈判数据收集自日本、欧洲和亚洲以英语为母语和非英语为母语的人；3)通过应用会话分析（应用会话分析是一种研究互动中谈话顺序的分析框架），我们能够了解MUN谈判中的社会行为是如何用语言术语包装和传递的。

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.