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Publication details [#14010]
Stubbe, Maria. 1998. Are you listening? Cultural influences on the use of supportive verbal feedback in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (3) : 257–289.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper documents a number of quantitative and qualitative differences found in the use of supportive verbal feedback devices by Maori and Pakeha listeners in a small sample of conversational New Zealand English, and discusses their implications for cross-cultural communication.