Topic
Aizuchi
About: Aizuchi is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 29 publications have been published within this topic receiving 291 citations. The topic is also known as: 相槌.
Papers
TL;DR: In Japanese conversation, head nods and aizuchis are extremely frequent, and their placement is often unexpected from the viewpoint of speakers of languages like English and Mandarin for example, these behaviors often occur in non-transition relevant places as discussed by the authors.
113 citations
TL;DR: The authors describe listening practices in English conversation from an Emancipatory Pragmatics perspective, focusing on the role of the listener as a modality of action and seeking to evaluate linguistic behaviors like responses in terms of cultural assumptions about politeness, turn-taking, silence, and overlapping talk.
56 citations
Book•
26 Feb 2004TL;DR: This article analyzed the relationship between gender, age and role in Japanese television interviews and found that the influence of age appeared to be more important than gender, an observation that has repercussions in the study of gender and language differences in modern Japan.
Abstract: This book analyzes the relationship between gender, age and role in Japanese television interviews. It covers a wide range of topics on Japanese communication; cultural and gender variables are interwoven in the interpretation of the findings. The study shows how participants interact through language and how they project their identities in the context of the interview. Based on a qualitative analysis, speech in mixed and same gender interactions is analysed, turntaking, terms of address and aizuchi (listener’s responses) are examined. The findings reveal interesting characteristics of all-female interactions, such as the influence of age that appears to be more important than gender; an observation that has repercussions in the study of gender and language differences in modern Japan. This book is an interdisciplinary study that integrates notions of politeness and theories of gender and language, and will be of interest to people researching Japanese culture and communication, gender studies and institutional language.
34 citations
30 Sep 1996
TL;DR: This paper investigates 'aizuchi' responses (back-channel feedback, interjectory responses or oral nodding) to user's utterances by a computer and makes a system which gives 'aIZuchi' using prosodic information.
Abstract: This paper investigates 'aizuchi' responses (back-channel feedback, interjectory responses or oral nodding) to user's utterances by a computer In telecommunications, 'aizuchi' responses are quite important to inform the hearer's condition to the speaker In a man-machine telecommunication environment, user's comfortableness may improve if a dialog system can give suitable 'aizuchi' to user's utterances For this purpose, it is important that a system detect conditions of 'aizuchi' insertion and insert one at appropriate timing Firstly, occurances of 'aizuchi' were analyzed using a simulated dialog corpus of telephone-shopping-tasks This showed that there are some prosodic cues in utterances in which 'aizuchi' is inserted Then, timing of 'aizuchi' insertion was investigated and perceptual experiments were carried out Lastly, we made a system which gives 'aizuchi' using prosodic information This system detected suitable positions which agreed with original 'aizuchi's with 77% correct rate
32 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the acquisition of aizuchi in a boy aged 1;5 to 3;1, and observed a developmental delay between utterance-final and utterance internal aIZuchi.
16 citations
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