Fujii2007
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Fujii2007 |
| Author(s) | Yasunari Fujii |
| Title | Tell Me about When You Were Hitchhiking: The Organization of Story Initiation by Australian and Japanese Speakers |
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| Tag(s) | conversation analysis, story initiation, Australian, Japanese |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 36 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 183–211 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404507070108 |
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Abstract
The sequence that begins a story may be a rather small segment, but how one performs the segment may affect whether one achieves the goal of telling the story. The participants in this study are native speakers of Australian English and Japanese, and the stories were collected in both languages. In recipient-initiated stories, Australian speakers begin a story in concert with the recipient's topic presentation, but Japanese speakers build momentum through the building of rapport and trust. In speaker-initiated stories, Australian speakers use a conventional story preface to claim the conversational floor, but Japanese speakers insinuate a story in subtle ways. Such differences may be related to differences between Australian and Japanese social and cultural structures. The final section discusses implications for conversation analysis in addition to cross-cultural issues.
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