Learners' perception and interpretation of contextualization cues in spontaneous Japanese conversation: Back-channel cue Uun

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1943-1981

  Ishida, Hiroji ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Back channel cues; Contextualization cues; Cross cultural pragmatics; Japanese; L2 learning; Receptive strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747757147     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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