This book explores the interpenetration of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-
interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis (CA). Turn-taking has been …

This comprehensive introduction to the Japanese language consists of six parts. Following
the introductory section, it explores the Japanese lexicon, grammatical foundations, major …

This article draws on work at the interface of grammar and interaction to argue that the
clause is a locus of interaction, in the sense that it is one of the most frequent grammatical …

This book summarizes the last decade of my journey exploring interdisciplinary approaches
to the study of language and interaction. The core of this work was developed as my Ph. D …

This book concerns how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint
courses of action in the midst of a single turn at talk by employing 'joint utterance …

We examine a set of supposedly “biclausal” constructions in natural conversations in
English and German, and argue that:(1) these constructions are not biclausal, since the …

Despite various theories about the exact origin of gestures in speech production,
researchers generally accept that gesture and speech constitute the product of a single unit …

The appearance of those articles in Language was not accidental. A close reading of Sacks,
Schegloff and Jefferson (1974: 703, fn. 12) in fact reveals an explicit invitation to linguists to …

In the process of second language acquisition, the ability to interact effectively is critical. But
what does it mean to be interactively competent? This book addresses this question by …

In this article I explore the interactional significance of grammar on turn-taking in Japanese
in view of reported conversation analytic findings on turn-taking for Anglo-American English …