Nakamura2018

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Nakamura2018
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Nakamura2018
Author(s) Kanae Nakamura
Title “Late projectability” of Japanese turns revisited: Interrelation between gaze and syntax in Japanese conversations
Editor(s) Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Yoshiko Matsumoto, Junko Mori
Tag(s) EMCA, Japanese, Turn-taking, Gaze, Turn-transition, Projection, Pragmatics, Interactional Linguistics
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2018
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 99–122
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.285.04nak
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Howpublished
Book title Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on Grammar, Interaction and Culture
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Abstract

Examining an interrelation between gaze and syntax in Japanese interaction, this study reveals the tendency that a speaker’s gaze shift to a recipient occurs in association with the final predicate of the turn-constructional unit (TCU), regardless of the grammatical form of the component following the predicate. The finding proposes that a speaker’s gaze projects an imminent onset of transition space in which a recipient may begin a next turn without being regarded as an interruption. While past studies highlighted the interactional significance of the utterance-final elements that “retroactively” mark the immediately preceding verb/adjective/nominal as the TCU-final predicate, this study uncovers that a speaker’s mid-TCU gaze shift serves as another resource to “proactively” mark the upcoming predicate as a TCU-final one.

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