Backchannel responses appear to be a universal behavior, but specific backchannel
behaviors are particular to language and culture. As such, they offer themselves to test …

Most studies of language transfer have focussed on interference from a speaker's first
language to his or her second language. This study presents data which suggests …

Listener responses (called backchannels) and their effect on intercultural communication
were investigated in eight dyadic conversations in English between Japanese and British …

This paper proposes a methodological framework, C (ontrastive) C (onversation) A (nalysis)
within which some of the listener back-channel expressions in Japanese conversation are …

This state-of-the-art paper discusses common approaches to the assessment of pragmatic
competence. Two approaches have dominated the assessment practice in the field of …

This study examined the relationship between the frequency of backchannel responses and
listener recall scores in inter-and intra-cultural conversations. The nature of the study was a …

In this paper, turn-internal listener back-channel strategies observed in Japanese casual
conversation are studied in contrast with those in American English. After examining …

Throughout the short life of interlanguage pragmatics as a subdiscipline of second language
research, it has been a virtually uncontested assumption that non-native speakers' …

Many researchers on bilingualism feel the need to state that a given bilingual stretch of talk
is” basically” in language A, although elements of language B may also be present in some …

A variety of interdependent processes associated with globalization, including greater
geographical, demographic, social and information exchange and mobility, have enabled …