The role of pivots in exolingual communication

Chovancová, Katarína, 1977-

The role of pivots in exolingual communication = Le role du pivot dans la communication exolingue / Katarína Chovancová, Carolina Haro Guerrero. -- The paper deals with exolingual trilogues between native and non native speakers of Slovak and French, characterized by a specific distribution of communicative tasks. The presence of a mediator, i. e. acommunicating subject who facilitates the exchange between the (two)other interlocutors not having a common language available that would be mastered with an equal competence by all, is marked by repetitive occurrences of signals of refomulation as a central discursive strategy ensuring the success of the communication. Basing their analysis on authentic linguistic material gathered for the needs of empirical research on exolingual and multicode communication, the authors identify pertinent features of communicative behaviour of the mediator

In XLinguae : European Scientific Language Journal. -- Nitra : Slovenská Vzdelávacia a Obstarávacia, 2020. -- ISSN 1337-8384. -- ISSN 2453-711X. -- Vol. 13, no. 1 (2020), pp. 64-74