Japanese Conversation Self-Contextualization Through Structure and Interactional Management Self-Contextualization Through Structure and Interactional Management

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 NONVERBAL SIGN 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 Appendices References Author Index Subject IndexMaynard, Senko K. is the author of 'Japanese Conversation Self-Contextualization Through Structure and Interactional Management Self-Contextualization Through Structure and Interactional Management' with ISBN 9780893915094 and ISBN 0893915092.