A Kinetic Approach to Understanding Communication and Context in Japanese

The successful decoding of a linguistic message requires knowledge of a particular grammar, but it is becoming increasingly clear that contextual and cultural cues also play an important role in understanding utterances in conversation. In Japanese, conversation proceeds smoothly and acquires some o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruch, Julie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1988-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/621