This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct conversational discourse. Sp

This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special

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

This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in

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