Turn-taking in Japanese conversation : a study in grammar and interaction / Hiroko Tanaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanaka, Hiroko.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 56.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Discourse analysis.

Japanese language.

Conversation analysis--Japan.

Conversation analysis.

Dialogue analysis--Japan.

Dialogue analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 of the possible point at which a current turn may become recognisably complete in comparison to English. Prior to such points, projectability is often limited to the progressive anticipation of small increments of talk. However, participants are able to achieve smooth speaker transitions with minimal gap or overlap through the use of specific grammatical and prosodic devices for marking possible points at which a transition may become relevant.

Contents:

TURN-TAKING IN JAPANESE CONVERSATION

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Basic organisation of turn-taking

Chapter 3. Syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources in turn-taking

Chapter 4. Turn-projection and construction

Chapter 5. Incremental projection: Case and adverbial particles

Chapter 6. Delayed projectability: The `compound turn-constructional unit'

Chapter 7. Concluding remarks

References

Index

PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-16328-0

9786612163289

90-272-9908-0

OCLC:

70764554