Discourse Approach to Turn-taking

Document Outline

• COVER
• ABSTRACT
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• CONTENTS
• 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1 Difficulties in Turn-Taking for Japanese Learners
  • 1.2 Movie as a Medium for Teaching Turn-Taking Rules and Tone Functions
• 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
  • 2.1 What is Discourse?
  • 2.2 Analysis of Intonation in a Discourse-Based Framework
  • 2.3 Description of Intonation by David Brazil
    • 2.3.1 Tone Unit and Prominence
    • 2.3.2 Tone
    • 2.3.3 Key and Termination
  • 2.4 Basic Concepts of Turn-Taking System
  • 2.5 Signals in Turn-Taking
    • 2.5.1 Turn-Eliciting Signals
    • 2.5.2 Intonation as a Cue in Turn-Taking in Brazil’s Intonation System
    • 2.5.3 Other Discussions on Intonation as a Cue for Eliciting a Turn
    • 2.5.4 Listener Activity: Back-Channel Signals
  • 2.6 Turn-Taking Behavior and Role-Relationships Between Participants
• 3 RESEARCH
  • 3.1 Methods of Research
  • 3.2 Data and Findings
    • 3.2.1 Data 1
    • 3.2.2 Findings
    • 3.2.3 Data 2
    • 3.2.4 Findings
  • 3.3 Analysis of Statement-Form Utterances
    • 3.3.1 Speaker’s Choice of a Falling Tone for the Last Tone Unit
    • 3.3.2 Speaker’s Choice of a Referring Tone for the Last Tone Unit
    • 3.3.3 Speaker’s Choice of a Level Tone for the Last Tone Unit
    • 3.3.4 Adjacency Pairs and Phatic Expressions
    • 3.3.5 Back-Channel Responses to Statement-Form Utterances
• 4 DISCUSSION
• 5 CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX
• REFERENCES