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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1988-01-01
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Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/621 |