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Maynard, Senko K. – 1986
The casual conversation of six pairs of Japanese and six pairs of American colleges students was analyzed for evidence of two related aspects of conversation management: the linguistic characteristics of utterance units and back-channel strategies. Utterance units are defined as those occurring between identifiable pauses or breaks in tempo.…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English
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Papademetre, Leo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Investigates Greek and English language use among second- and third-generation bilinguals living in the Australian urban social context of Adelaide, where the dynamic process of code interaction has created a sociolinguistic continuum used to define in-group memberships on the basis of which part of the continuum is shared by whom. (40 references)…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Change Agents, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Background