Videotapes of seven dyadic conversations in Japanese were transcribed and analyzed for regulator behaviors. Using the Wiener and Devoe 1974 model, several behaviors for this regulator were described (a) regulators of addressors' continuation, (b) regulators of addressees' continuation, (c) addressor-initiated shift regulators, and (d) addressee-initiated shift regulators. Several differences and similarities in the use of regulators in Japanese and American discourse were sketched.
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