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Publication details [#31908]
Hayashi, Reiko. 1991. Floor structure of English and Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (1) : 1–30.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines floor structures in English and Japanese, considering floor as a community competence cognitively developed during interaction, and as a form of mutual knowledge used to sequence conversation.