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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Back-Channel Behavior in Thai and American Casual Telephone Conversations

Abstract

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In both languages short utterances tended to show understanding, short questions to request clarification, and laughter to display emotional response. In Thai brief restatements were likely to show agreement whereas in American English sentence completions were related to the function of understanding.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Education
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Wannaruk, Anchalee
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Erica McClure

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI9812803
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80221

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www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Wannaruk, Anchalee. Back-Channel Behavior in Thai and American Casual Telephone Conversations. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/80221