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Publication details [#61427]

Nishizaka, Aug. 2016. The use of demo-prefaced response displacement for being a listener to distressful experiences in Japanese interaction. Text & Talk 36 : 757–788.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | discourse strategy | distress | listener | turn-taking

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper debates how volunteers put responses with the Japanese word demo (‘but’) at turn-beginning position, to achieve “being an apt, afilliated listener”, in their interactions with post-Fukushima disaster distressed evacuees.