Navigating Boundaries through Knowledge: Intercultural Phenomena in ELF Interactions

Abstract This study investigates intercultural phenomena in the process of recognizing cultural boundaries online English as a lingua franca (ELF) video conferencing-based interactions. The recorded interactions between 20 conversational pairs were analyzed by adopting conversation analysis an analytic framework. participants’ perspectives are demonstrated through action sequence verifying recipient’s knowledge status, informing, and complimenting, which built category relevant backgrounds recipients. findings thus suggest that participants employ their own repertoire exchanges with unfamiliar values they navigate based on practical reasoning. More specifically, categorize one another use procedural about familiar practices other’s country while displaying one’s affiliation to concludes ELF speakers’ experiences navigating during first encounters organized according method negotiate accommodate affinity, is significant it confirms these shared beyond particular domain.