Hiroko Tanaka

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hiroko Tanaka is involved.

Title

Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction

Hiroko Tanaka

This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 56] 1999. xiv, 242 pp.

Articles

Tanaka, Hiroko 2010 Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun: Displaying involvement without topical engagement Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 303–332 | Article

Of the half a dozen non-lexical response particles in Japanese sharing significant properties with Oh in English, this chapter focuses on a single feature of one such particle Huun, namely that of displaying involvement with ongoing talk without topical engagement, while making relevant a topic… read more

Tanaka, Hiroko 2004 Prosody for making transition-relevance places in Japanese conversation: The case of turns unmarked by utterance-final objects Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation, Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Cecilia E. Ford (eds.), pp. 63–96 | Article

Tanaka, Hiroko 2001 The implementation of possible cognitive shifts in Japanese conversation: Complementizers as pivotal devices Studies in Interactional Linguistics, Selting, Margret and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 81–110 | Article