Conversational Dominance and Gender : A Study of Japanese Speakers in First and Second Language Contexts

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Title: Conversational Dominance and Gender : A Study of Japanese Speakers in First and Second Language Contexts
Description: This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native speakers of Japanese. Drawing upon a critical synthesis of insights from several different fields, including Conversation Analysis, the Birmingham school of discourse analysis, and dialogical analysis, the author proposes an innovative analytical framework for operationalising the concept of dominance in.
Authors: Itakura, Hiroko
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Japanese language--Sex differences, Japanese language--Discourse analysis, Dominance (Psychology)
Categories: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, LANGUAGE STUDY / Japanese, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native speakers of Japanese. Drawing upon a critical synthesis of insights from several different fields, including Conversation Analysis, the Birmingham school of discourse analysis, and dialogical analysis, the author proposes an innovative analytical framework for operationalising the concept of dominance in.
ISBN:9789027251084
9789027298102