Publications

Publication details [#14483]

Iwasaki, Shoichi and Preeya Ingkaphirom Horie. 1998. The 'Northridge Earthquake' conversations: conversational patterns in Japanese and Thai and their cultural significance. Discourse & Society 9 (4) : 501–529.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

common ground | conversational style | holding the floor | turn-taking

Language as a subject

Japanese | Thai

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

A crosscultural comparison links Japanese and Thai conversational patterns (a collaborative speech style versus a self-assertive speech style respectively) to Japanese and Thai cultural norms (group orientation versus independence respectively).