Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation

Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation
ISBN-10
9027226229
ISBN-13
9789027226228
Category
Conversation analysis
Pages
249
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing
Author
Makoto Hayashi

Description

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to jointly produce a coherent grammatical unit-in-progress, and explores the range of social actions that speakers accomplish by employing that practice. This study is part of a larger project intended to investigate how humans achieve intricate coordination of their behavior with that of co-participants in everyday social encounters and how language plays a constitutive part in making such micro-level social coordination possible. Through a close examination of joint utterance construction in Japanese, this book contributes to a growing body of research into the mutual influence between the grammatical organization of language and the organization of situated human conduct in social interaction.

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