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Publication details [#54891]

Kushida, Shuya. 2011. Confirming understanding and acknowledging assistance: Managing trouble responsibility in response to understanding check in Japanese talk-in-interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (11) : 2716–2739.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Via an analysis of Japanese talk-in-interaction, this study argues that the practice of providing a candidate comprehension (through rephrasing) is not only recognizable as ascertaining comprehension, but can also be conditionally recognizable as succoring the trouble-source speaker in verbalizing what s/he wants to say.