Introduction

Author Biography

• Hiroko Tanaka, University of Huddersfield

  Hiroko Tanaka is currently visiting associate professor in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is author of Turn-taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction and other publications that focus on Japanese conversational interaction from a comparative perspective using the methodology of conversation analysis. Her primary research interests include structures of preference, membership categorisation devices, and the relationship between word order and social action in English and Japanese.