Publications

Publication details [#48664]

Fujii, Yasunari. 2008. ‘You must have a wealth of stories’: Cross-linguistic differences between addressee support behaviour in Australian and Japanese. Multilingua 27 (4) : 325–370.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | politeness | storytelling

Language as a subject

Austrian | Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This crosslinguistic study compares addressee support behaviour towards a storyteller in Japanese and Australian society, at politeness and friendliness level, distinguishing between three listener response types: minimal responses, assessments and questions.