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Publication details [#45740]

Saft, Scott. 2007. Exploring aizuchi as resources in Japanese social interaction: The case of a political discussion program. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (7) : 1290–1312.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

listener | political anthropology | response | social interaction | television debate

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper demonstrates how in televised Japanese political discussion programs aizuchi's -a sort of short listener 'responses'- offer the moderator the necessary access to the floor in order to portion out turns at talk to the program panelists.