1st Edition

Turn-taking in English and Japanese Projectability in Grammar, Intonation and Semantics

By Hiroko Furo Copyright 2001
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

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

    Acknowledgments Dedication Table of Contents List of Charts, Figures, and Tables Transcription Conventions and Abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Literature Review 3: Turn-taking in English Conversation 4: Turn-taking in Japanese Conversation 5: Turn-taking in U.S. Political News Interviews 6: Turn-taking in Japanese Political News Interviews 7: Completion Points 8: Speaker Changes 9: Completion Points and Speaker Changes 10: Turn-taking in English and Japanese 11: Conversation and Political News Interviews 12: Conclusion References

    Biography

    Hiroko Furo teaches at Illinois Wesleyan University.

    "...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