Conversational Dominance and Gender
：A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts
( Pragmatics & Beyond New Series )
Publication subTitle ：A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts
Publication series ： Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Author： Hiroko Itakura
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2001
E-ISBN: 9789027298102
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027251084
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Language： ENG
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Description
This well-written, clear and systematic study contributes to three research areas: conversational dominance, gender, and pragmatic transfer in foreign language. Most importantly, the author develops an analytical framework dominance in conversation. [...] Itakura succeeded in presenting an extremely interesting, highly systematic study of the methodological problems of analysing conversational dominance. [...] the study contributes usefully to developing an analytical framework for conversational dominance, pragmatic transfer, and the discussion of gender difference in conversation.