Building a corpus of ELF (English Lingua Franca) user negotiated interactions

这是第一次尝试在模拟联合国模拟中收集口头数据，以便为语言研究准备语料库。在进行这项研究的过程中，从方法论和技术角度学到了很多。尽管存在一些困难(例如，在国际英语会议期间转移到网上活动，这使得收集自发的多方讲话数据变得困难)，但迄今为止所作的努力使人们能够进行几次定性分析，以确定该语料库(Munce--模拟联合国英语语料库)中的发言者产生的英语作为一种通用法语与其他ELF语料库，如ACE(亚洲英语语料库)和VOICE(维也纳牛津英语语料库)的可比性。到目前为止，比较的领域包括，对住宿的修复策略的使用，以及说ELF的人产生的非标准形式，这些形式在本族语中也可以看到。分析仍在进行中，即将发表，包括比较在英语学习语料库中发现的隐喻和混合习语的创造性实例，以及本族语者在与英语学习者互动时使用的适应策略，以及为了相互理解而使用冗余的比较。在这些初步定性分析的基础上，编写了几本书的章节、期刊文章和会议介绍，并计划在赠款期间结束后和之后继续进行这项研究(包括进一步的数据收集、转录、编码和最终的量化分析)。

This is the first attempt to collect spoken data in Model United Nations simulations in order to prepare a corpus for linguistic research. Much was learned in the process of doing this research from methodological and technical standpoints. Despite a number of difficulties (such as, the move to online events during COVID that rendered it difficult to collect spontaneous multiparty speech data) the efforts so far have made it possible to do several qualitative analyses in order to ascertain the comparability of the English as a LIngua Franca produced by the speakers in this corpus (MUNCE--Model United Nations Corpus of English) with other ELF corpora such as ACE (Asian Corpus of English) and VOICE (Vienna Oxford Corpus of English). The areas compared thus far include, the use of repair strategies for accommodation, and the production of non-standard forms by ELF speakers that are also seen in native speaker language. Analyses still underway and pending publication include a comparison of creative instances of metaphor and hybrid idioms found across ELF corpora, and accommodation strategies used by native speakers when interacting with ELF speakers, as well as a comparison of the use of redundancy for mutual intelligibility. Several book chapters, journal articles and conference presentations have been produced on the basis of these preliminary qualitative analyses with plans for a continuation of this research (including further data collection, transcription, coding and eventual quantitative analyses) even after and beyond the conclusion of the grant period.