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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964155203321

Autore

Tanaka Hiroko

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-16328-0

9786612163289

90-272-9908-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : illustrations

Collana

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

Disciplina

495.6/0141

Soggetti

Japanese language - Discourse analysis

Conversation analysis - Japan

Dialogue analysis - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.