Publications

Publication details [#45739]

Kogure, Masato. 2007. Nodding and smiling in silence during the loop sequence of backchannels in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (7) : 1275–1289.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

back channel cue | dyadic interaction | gesture | silence | utterance

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper demonstrates how Japanese conversationalists complete a loop sequence silence with nods, smiles or reciprocal or simultaneous verbal backchannels, in order to pursue the current dialogue without generating disharmony.