Highlighted moves within an action: Segmented talk in Japanese conversation

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 517-541

  Morita, Emi ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Action; Conversation; Discourse unit; Interactional particles; Japanese discourse segmentation; Turn constructional unit

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849092057     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445608091885     Document Type: Article

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