Japanese conversation : self-contextualization through structure and interactional management / Senko Kumiya Maynard.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.

Introduction -- Background -- Self-Contextualization in Conversational Interaction -- Goals and Organization -- Data -- The Type of Data Analyzed -- Data Sources for Conversation Analysis -- Procedures for Data Collection -- Preparation of Data -- The Language of Conversation -- Spoken and Written Language -- Fragmentation of Talk -- Final Particles -- Fillers -- Ellipses -- Postponing -- Verb Morphology -- Sentence-Final Forms -- Insertion of Metacommunicational Remarks -- Propositional Twisting -- Cocreation of an Utterance -- Questions as a Conversation Elicitor -- Rhythmic Ensemble -- Conversational Structure -- Interactional Thematic Structure in Conversation -- Background -- Functional Sentence Perspective and Danes's Theme Progression Patterns -- Theme, Thematic Fields and Thematic-Turns. Thematic Progression in Conversational Interaction -- Strategies for the Thematic Manipulation in Conversation -- Causal Narratives in Conversation -- Background -- Structure of the Causal Narrative -- Across the Narrative and the Conversational Discourse -- The Story Recipient as Co-author -- Conclusions -- Interactional Management in Conversation -- Turn-Taking Strategy, Syntactic Information and The Global Context -- Background. Review of Previous Studies -- Defining the Turn Unit. Identification of Turn-Yielding Signals -- The System of Turn Taking -- Hypotheses Relevant to the Proposed Turn-taking System -- Discussion and Interpretation of Data -- Significance of Rule Noncompliance -- Back-Channel Behavior -- Background -- Defining and Identifying Back-channel Behavior -- Frequency and Function of Turn-internal Listener Back Channel -- Discourse Context of Back Channel -- Conclusions -- Head Movement As A Nonverbalsign -- Background -- Exploring Functions of Head Movement in the Turn-taking Context -- Frequencies of Head Movement -- Conclusions -- Variability in Conversation -- Conversation Management in Contrast -- Background -- Earlier Contrastive Analysis -- Toward Contrastive Conversation Analysis -- On the "Equivalence" for Contrast -- Casual Conversation in the United States -- Some Aspects of Contrastive Conversation Analysis between Japanese and American English -- Conclusions -- Conversational Variablilty and Social Conceptualization -- Background -- Conversational Variability -- Cognitive and Social Undercurrent for Conversational Variability -- Self-Contextualization in Language, Language Use and Society -- Implications for Intercultural Communication -- Epilogue -- Concluding Remarks.

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