Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction

(Book #56 in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Series)

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This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is shown that the postpositional grammatical structure and the predicate-final orientation in Japanese regularly result in a relatively delayed projectability...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1556198191

ISBN13:9781556198199

Release Date:February 2000

Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company

Length:260 Pages

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Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction

(Book #56 in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Series)

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