Abstract Yasuhiro Katagiri

会話インタラクションの文化パラメータ

Cultural parameters in conversational interactions

• Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University Hakodate, Japan)

Abstract:

People with different cultural backgrounds have different styles in their practice in conversational interactions. A comparative examination of Japanese, English and Arabic dialogues in Mister O corpus, cross-linguistic data collected under a common task setting is presented. A parametric conception for capturing their differences is then proposed as an intermediate level theory connecting the general human cognitive capacities and the historical idiosyncrasies in interactions.