Publications

Publication details [#14010]

Stubbe, Maria. 1998. Are you listening? Cultural influences on the use of supportive verbal feedback in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (3) : 257–289.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational exchange | cooperation | crosscultural communication | feedback

Language as a subject

English, New Zealand

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper documents a number of quantitative and qualitative differences found in the use of supportive verbal feedback devices by Maori and Pakeha listeners in a small sample of conversational New Zealand English, and discusses their implications for cross-cultural communication.