Conversational Dominance & Gender: A Study of Japanese Speakers in First & Second Language Contexts Book

	Acknowledgements
	List of tables
	Transcription notation
	List of abbreviations
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Gender, dominance and pragmatic transfer	5
2.1	Language and gender in Japanese culture	5
2.2	Conversational dominance and gender	14
2.3	Conversational dominance and pragmatic transfer	29
Ch. 3	Analysing conversational dominance	37
3.1	Theories of spoken discourse	37
3.2	Features of interactional asymmetry	44
3.3	Analytical framework	70
Ch. 4	Empirical study: Gender dominance and pragmatic transfer among Japanese speakers	87
4.1	Research design	87
4.2	Results	92
Ch. 5	Dimensions of conversational dominance	105
5.1	Relationships among the three dimensions of conversational dominance	105
5.2	Sequential dominance and quantitative dominance	106
5.3	Sequential dominance and participatory dominance	116
Ch. 6	Conversational dominance, styles, strategies and pragmatic transfer: Informatives	129
6.1	Introduction	129
6.2	Gender differences in the use of initiations in L1 and L2	132
6.3	Informatives	135
6.4	L1 to L2 transfer of informatives	161
Ch. 7	Conversational dominance, styles, strategies and pragmatic transfer: Elicitations	163
7.1	Elicit:agree	163
7.2	Elicit:inform	175
Ch. 8	Conclusion	185
8.1	Re-examination of the analytical framework	185
8.2	Gender dominance in Japanese conversation	194
8.3	Gender and pragmatic transfer	196
8.4	Concluding remarks	198
	App. 1: Topic sheet	201
App. 2	Number of turns used for quantitative analysis	203
	References	205
	Name index	221
	Subject index	223