Full Description
Sadanobu's research on fluency and disfluency in Japanese reveals that disfluency among healthy native speakers follows predictable patterns and may actually enhance their everyday communication.
The book challenges the conventional view that disfluency should simply be eliminated by demonstrating that it serves dual purposes, both as an obstacle to overcome and a valuable communicative tool that speakers learn and strategically employ in conversation. Drawing from diverse fields including linguistics, conversation analysis, language education, and language disorders research, the contributors build a compelling case for this nuanced perspective. They extend their analysis to practical applications in second language teaching and speech synthesis, presenting disfluency as a spectrum that encompasses native speakers, language learners, and language-impaired individuals. Their findings reveal that disability-induced disfluency exists on a continuum with typical speaker disfluency rather than representing a separate phenomenon.
This is an essential book for academics and researchers on oral communication, especially in Linguistics and Japanese studies.
Contents
Part 1: "Grammar" of Disfluencies
Chapter 1: Disfluency as a black light
Toshiyuki SADANOBU
Chapter 2: Annotating disfluencies in spontaneous Japanese: A corpus-based study
Takehiko MARUYAMA
Chapter 3: How can 'incomplete' sentences be well-formed utterances?: The conventionality of Japanese te-ending utterances
Shigeko OKAMOTO
Chapter 4: Co-occurring connectives: A corpus study of formulaicity as spontaneously arising means to reduce disfluency in Japanese written discourse
Andrej BEKEŠ, Bor HODOŠČEK, Kikuko NISHINA, Takeshi ABEKAWA, and Jinbo WANG
Part 2: "Usages" of Disfluencies
Chapter 5: Epistemicity-oriented disfluency in Japanese conversation: Disfluencies from interactional perspective
Tomoko ENDO
Chapter 6: Disfluent sound stretch as a resource in conversational storytelling
Satsuki ISEKI
Chapter 7: Naturally 'disfluent': The repeated Japanese adverb chotto 'a little' in conversation
Tsuyoshi ONO and Ryoko SUZUKI
Part 3: "Learning/teaching" of disfluencies
Chapter 8: Disfluency in utterances of young children
Kenji TOMOSADA
Chapter 9: Teaching disfluency in Japanese language education and its effects on communication: A study focused on getting-stuck utterances
Mizuki FUNAHASHI, Jun SUDO, Toshiyuki SADANOBU, and Takaaki SHOCHI
Chapter 10: Toward expressive and disfluent speech synthesis
Akiko MOKHTARI, Hiroaki HATANO, Jun ARAI, Nick CAMPBELL, and Toshiyuki SADANOBU
Part 4: Beyond existing fields of native/L2 learner/pathological Disfluencies
Chapter 11: Articulatory disfluency in healthy individuals experiencing speech clumsiness
Tatsuya KITAMURA, Yukiko NOTA, and Michiko HASHI
Chapter 12: Fluency and disfluency in language disorders
Naohisa FURUTA, Naomi SAKAI, and Yuki TAKAKURA
Chapter 13: Between fluency and disfluency: Some considerations on the "disfluency continuum"
Ryoko HAYASHI
