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

by Hiroko Tanaka

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