Publications

Publication details [#11953]

Iwasaki, Shoichi. 1997. The Northridge Earthquake Conversations: The Floor Structure and the 'Loop' Sequence in Japanese Conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (6) : 661–693. 33 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | holding the floor | sequential organization | turn-taking

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is argued that in Japanese conversations, the concept of mutual dependency establishes specific turn-taking patterns ('loop sequences') and appropriate floor holders which in turn maintain this concept.