Publications

Publication details [#39573]

Young, Richard and Jina Lee. 2004. Identifying units in interaction: Reactive tokens in Korean and English conversations. Journal of Sociolinguistics 8 (3) : 380–407.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | conversation | turn-taking

Language as a subject

English | Korean

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This contrastive study examines the use of reactive tokens by Americans in English, and by Koreans in Korean and in English, and demonstrates the ecological relationship between language resources and their use in building active listenership.