Metapragmatics of attentiveness : a study in interpersonal and cross-cultural pragmatics / Saeko Fukushima.

"This book examines attentiveness, which is briefly defined as a demonstrator's pre-emptive responses to a recipient's verbal or non-verbal cues or situations surrounding a recipient and a demonstrator, which takes the form of offering. It elucidates what attentiveness is, and addresses the importan...

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