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Publication details [#31908]

Hayashi, Reiko. 1991. Floor structure of English and Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (1) : 1–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | holding the floor | interaction | sequential organization

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines floor structures in English and Japanese, considering floor as a community competence cognitively developed during interaction, and as a form of mutual knowledge used to sequence conversation.