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Table of contents

Acknowledgements ix
Transcription conventions xi

chapter 1
Introduction 1

chapter 2
A review of silence in intercultural communication 5
2.1 Overview 5
2.2 Preliminaries: Silence in communication 5
2.2.1 Forms of silence 5
2.2.2 Functions of silence 7
2.3 Silence in intercultural communication 12
2.4 Silence in multicultural classroom contexts 16
2.5 Silence of overseas students from Asia in the Anglo-mainstream
classroom 18
2.6 Silence in Japanese communication 22
2.6.1 The ‘silent Japanese’ 22
2.6.2 Length of silent pauses in Japanese 23
2.6.3 Silences as speech acts 26
2.6.4 Distribution of talk and silence 27
2.6.5 Underelaboration 28
2.7 Summary: An overview of silence in intercultural communication 30
2.8 Interpreting silence 31
2.8.1 A multi-layered model for interpreting silence 31
2.8.2 Inter-relationship between the two dimensions of the model 35
2.8.3 The relationships and weight of factors 39

chapter 3
The sociocultural context: Silence and talk in Japanese classrooms 41
3.1 Japanese high school classroom study 41
3.2 Linguistic domain 43
3.2.1 Modes of communication 43