Tell me about when you were hitchhiking: The organization of story initiation by Australian and Japanese speakers

Language in Society

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 183-211

  Fujii, Yasunari ^a  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Australian English; Conversation analysis; Japanese; Language and culture; Story initiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247480943     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404507070108     Document Type: Article

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