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Publication details [#56264]

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi. 2012. The “body poetics”: Repeated rhythm as a cultural asset for Japanese life-saving instruction. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (5) : 680–704.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Exploring the patterning of Japanese verbal and nonverbal “repetition” in first-aid practice, this study argues that Japanese interlocutors demonstrate inherent dispositions to converge onto odd-number constructions in the middle range of ethnopoetic formation. This kind of latent format-sharing depicts a culturally preferred presentation/reception format and helps to explain the culturally embedded discursive “habitus” in the everyday instructional practice.