In the research literature on interactional competence in talk among second language speakers and their coparticipants, this volume of Pragmatics & Interaction is the first to focus on interaction in Japanese. The chapters examine the use and development of interactional practices in a wide range of social settings, from everyday talk among friends to service encounters, workplace interaction, and a rakugo performance to various activities in Japanese language classrooms and oral language assessment. Conducted from the shared perspective of conversation analysis, the studies show in detail how the activities are accomplished through the generic methods of interactional organization, multimodal practices, and the specific linguistic resources of Japanese.
Contents
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
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1 Interactional Competence in Japanese as an Additional Language: An Overview
Tim Greer, Midori Ishida, & Yumiko Tateyama
Interactional Competence Across Social Activities
2 “My Japanese isn’t that Good”: Self-Deprecation, Preference Organization, and Interactional Competence
Alfred Rue Burch
3 Learning Technical Terms in Workplace Interaction
Stephen J. Moody
4 She Who Laughs First: Audience Laughter and Interactional Competence at a Rakugo Performance for Foreign Students
Cade Bushnell
5 Co-construction of an L2 Speaker’s Interactional Competence: Recipient Responses in an Interview Activity
Mari Yamamoto & Tomoharu Yanagimachi
6 Multimodal Interactional Competence in the Use of Technology in L2 Japanese Classrooms
Keiko Ikeda & Don Bysouth
7 Collaborative Orientation to the ‘Search for What-to-Say’ in Pair Work Interactions
Atsushi Hasegawa
8 Assessing Interactional Competence: Storytelling in the Japanese Oral Proficiency Interview
Waka Tominaga
Developing Interactional Competence
9 Developing Recipient Competence during Study Abroad
Midori Ishida
10 Becoming a Conversationalist at the Dinner Table: Topic Management Practices by a JFL Student Living in Foreign Language Housing
Junko Mori & Yumiko Matsunaga
11 “Daijoobu desu ka?”: Use of Formulaic Expressions by One Novice L2 Japanese Teacher
Yumiko Tateyama
12 L1 Speaker Turn Design and Emergent Familiarity in Opening Sequences of Second Language Japanese Interaction
Tim Greer
Index