caa a22 4500 38634924X CHVBK 20180307111823.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047404500013270 doi S0047404500013270 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047404500013270 White Sheida Center for Development of Early Education, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu Backchannels across cultures: A study of Americans and Japanese [Elektronische Daten] [Sheida White] The frequency of listener responses, called backchannels, was studied in English conversations within and across two cultural groups: Americans from the midwestern United States and Japanese who were born and raised in Japan. The findings reveal that backchannels of several types are displayed far more frequently by Japanese listeners. This appears to be related to the greater use by Japanese of certain discourse constructions that favor backchannels, and to the Japanese culture. The Japanese listening style remains unchanged in cross-cultural conversations, but Americans alter listening style in the direction of their non-native interlocutors. The study found no evidence for the hypothesis that backchanneling conventions that are not shared contribute to negative personality attributions or stereotyping. (Conversational analysis, intercultural communication, Japanese and American English discourse) Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Language in Society Cambridge University Press 18/1(1989-03), 59-76 0047-4045 18:1<59 1989 18 LSY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500013270 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500013270 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- White Sheida Center for Development of Early Education, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language in Society Cambridge University Press 18/1(1989-03), 59-76 0047-4045 18:1<59 1989 18 LSY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge