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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University of Kansas
1988-01-01
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| description | 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 of its meaningfulness due to the use of gestural signals, namely head nodding. This paper discusses how head nodding operates in Japanese and interprets its use as it relates to the Cooperative Principle of Grice and as an indicator of cultural values. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e54a32723c924a1cbb3dfa5c7db1a4282022-12-22T03:59:49ZengUniversity of KansasKansas Working Papers in Linguistics2378-76001988-01-0113215010.17161/KWPL.1808.621A Kinetic Approach to Understanding Communication and Context in JapaneseBruch, JulieThe 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 of its meaningfulness due to the use of gestural signals, namely head nodding. This paper discusses how head nodding operates in Japanese and interprets its use as it relates to the Cooperative Principle of Grice and as an indicator of cultural values.http://hdl.handle.net/1808/621Japanese language-- Discourse analysisJapanese language-- Social aspects |
| spellingShingle | Bruch, Julie A Kinetic Approach to Understanding Communication and Context in Japanese Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Japanese language-- Discourse analysis Japanese language-- Social aspects |
| title | A Kinetic Approach to Understanding Communication and Context in Japanese |
| title_full | A Kinetic Approach to Understanding Communication and Context in Japanese |
| title_fullStr | A Kinetic Approach to Understanding Communication and Context in Japanese |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Kinetic Approach to Understanding Communication and Context in Japanese |
| title_short | A Kinetic Approach to Understanding Communication and Context in Japanese |
| title_sort | kinetic approach to understanding communication and context in japanese |
| topic | Japanese language-- Discourse analysis Japanese language-- Social aspects |
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