Identifying units in interaction: Reactive tokens in Korean and English conversations

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 380-407

  Young, Richard F ^a   Lee, Jina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Backchannel; Conversation analysis; Cross cultural interaction; Grammar; Korean; Turn taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444490005     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2004.00266.x     Document Type: Review

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