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Publication details [#34924]

White, Sheida. 1989. Backchannels across cultures: A study of Americans and Japanese. Language in Society 18 (1) : 89–76.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

back channel cue | conversational analysis | crosscultural communication | language and culture | listener

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines backchanneling -or listener response- conventions in Japanese and American English discourse, within and across cultural groups. Divergent backchanneling conventions do not seem to add to stereotyping or negative judgements.