Itakura Hiroko. Conversational Dominance and Gender

John Benjamins, 2001. — 227 p. — (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series). — ISBN: 90 272 5108 8 / 1 58811 057 5.This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native speakers of Japanese.