Nakamura2018
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| 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 |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
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| Pages | 99-122 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.285.04nak |
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| 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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