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Turn-taking in English and Japanese

Projectability in Grammar, Intonation and Semantics

By Hiroko Furo

Published May 8th 2001 by Routledge – 144 pages

Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

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Description

This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between language and interaction.

Reviews

"…the book presents detailed analysis of the data from multiple angles in a highly organized manner. It provides empirical evidence as to how English and Japanese turn-taking is structured in two distinct speech situations." -- Ryuko Kubota, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Author Bio

Hiroko Furo teaches at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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