Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation write by Kazuko Matsumoto. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct conversational discourse. Specifically, it investigates the syntactic, informational, and functional structures of intonation units (IUs) as basic units of discourse production and information flow in spoken communication. It addresses various research topics: clause vs. phrase centrality, relationship between IUs and clauses, functions of independent NPs, preferred argument/clause structure and transitivity, interrelationship among functional components, and the role of new and interactional information in the shaping of IU syntax. Overall, it tries to elucidate not only the preferred IU structures that are typical of the way Japanese speakers talk in connected discourse, but also possible relationships between the structures and their implications. Besides three main chapters discussing the results of quantitative and qualitative analyses, it also includes an introductory chapter comprehensively covering key issues in research on information flow in spoken discourse in general. Thus the book will be useful to all students and researchers of functional linguistics and discourse analysis.
Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation
Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation write by Hiroko Tanaka. This book was released on 2000-02-15. Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Intonation Units in Conversational Japanese
Intonation Units in Conversational Japanese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intonation Units in Conversational Japanese write by Kazuko Matsumoto. This book was released on 1996. Intonation Units in Conversational Japanese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Turn-taking in English and Japanese
Turn-taking in English and Japanese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Turn-taking in English and Japanese write by Hiroko Furo. This book was released on 2013-10-31. Turn-taking in English and Japanese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between language and interaction.
Units in Mandarin Conversation
Units in Mandarin Conversation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Units in Mandarin Conversation write by Hongyin Tao. This book was released on 1996-05-24. Units in Mandarin Conversation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the artificially constructed sentence. The book shows that some basic notions developed from sentence-level data often do not account well for speech data. For example, in many versions of syntactic theory, the basic syntactic structure of any sentence is assumed to comprise both an NP and a VP (with variations in terminology). However the author shows that a Mandarin sentence in spoken discourse can consist of a lone NP or a transitive verbal expression without any explicit argument (which is not due to anaphora). Although the book concerns Mandarin discourse and grammar, it will be of interest to students of a wide range of fields, including discourse analysis, syntax, conversation analysis, prosodic studies, and typological studies.
