| 研究実績の概要 |
The significant achievement this year is the analysis of backchannel usage in Australian English. The detailed multimodal analysis suggests that, as we anticipated, AusE speakers use backchannels quite differently from Japanese English speakers. More specifically, the functions of backchannels in AusE seem predominantly a part of turn-taking strategy and floor-management strategy, while backchannels in JE has an important role of rapport establishment.
A more closer analysis of ELF communication revealed that, while both participants (AusE speaker and JE speaker) use a range of accommodation strategies in forming backchannel instances and sequences, their accommodation is limited to what they have in their linguistic repertoire. That is, accommodation is realised only through enhancing their readily available strategies, but not through something they have not acquired or noticed. The results were presented at 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Zurich, as part of a panel on accommodation.
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