Abstract
Based on an examination of 350 question-response pairs identified across 10 different video-taped, face-to-face interactions among native speakers of Japanese, this paper presents an overview of the question-response system in Japanese conversation. Its descriptions focus on the lexical/morphosyntactic/prosodic resources used for question formulation, the range of action types commonly performed with question-formatted utterances, the kinds of methods used for next speaker selection, and the patterns of fittedness between questions and their responses.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2685-2702 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2010 |
Keywords
- Actions
- Answers
- Fittedness
- Formulations
- Japanese
- Questions
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Artificial Intelligence