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Decades of research on communication strategies of English learner has offered a full picture of the field. However, previous studies are generally concerned with either daily or classroom conversatio...n whereas little has been known concerning the language strategies in academic debate with non-native speakers of English being the debaters. Given the debater's dual identities as language learners as well, strategies utilized in debate may be influenced by a wider scope of elements that are peculiar to the situation. Centering on language-related strategies used by Japanese EFL debaters, this study made use of discourse analysis of a national parliamentary debate tournament. Combining rhetorical situation theory, the results suggest that the debaters adopted strategies including audience-oriented strategies and speech-structuring strategies that are considered unique to debate for the purpose of better conveyance of information. This indicates the debaters' awareness of a differing rhetorical situation which calls for different language-related strategies from daily conversation. Additionally, the following strategies are frequently used by debaters in the current study: fillers, code-switching, similar-sounding words, Japanese-made English, and paraphrase.続きを見る
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01_chen_07_01_2020