Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation

Makoto Hayashi | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to jointly produce a coherent grammatical unit-in-progress, and explores the range of social actions that speakers accomplish by employing that practice. This study is part of a larger project intended to investigate how humans achieve intricate coordination of their behavior with that of co-participants in everyday social encounters and how language plays a constitutive part in making such micro-level social coordination possible. Through a close examination of joint utterance construction in Japanese, this book contributes to a growing body of research into the mutual influence between the grammatical organization of language and the organization of situated human conduct in social interaction.

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 12] 2003. xii, 249 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/sidag.12

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | p. xi

Table of contents

1. Introduction | pp. 1–13

2. Preliminaries | pp. 15–24

3. Activity, participation, and joint utterance construction | pp. 25–74

4. Grammar and opportunities for joint turn construction | pp. 75–119

5. Language and the body as resources for socially coordinated participation in situated activities | pp. 121–171

6. Postposition-initiated utterances: An interactional account of a grammatical practice | pp. 173–204

7. Conclusion | pp. 205–212

Notes | pp. 213–222

Appendix | pp. 241–242

Name index | pp. 243–244

Subject index | pp. 245–249

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