Question

A pervasive set of Japanese terms called aizuchi (“eye-ZOO-chee”) serve as these expressions, which facilitate turn-taking. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these phatic expressions that convey engagement with, and attention to, conversation partners. English often uses reduplication in these utterances, like “uh-huh” and “mm-hmm.”
ANSWER: backchannels [or backchanneling]
[10e] Backchanneling, phatic expressions, and turn-taking fall under the purview of this subfield, which draws heavily on Grice’s maxims. This linguistic subfield studies how context influences language.
ANSWER: pragmatics
[10m] Turn-taking can also be facilitated by these questions that add a hedge or request for clarification at the end of a sentence. Janet Holmes found that women used more “affective” or “facilitative” examples of these questions than men.
ANSWER: tag questions [or question tags]
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Berkeley AToronto B10101030
Chicago AWUSTL B010010
Chicago BDuke001010
Claremont CollegesChicago C0000
Columbia AMcGill0101020
Columbia BNorth Carolina B0000
Cornell AMichigan010010
Georgia TechArizona State0000
HarvardNYU0000
IndianaToronto A010010
Iowa StateFlorida0101020
MarylandPurdue0101020
Minnesota ABrown010010
North Carolina ABerkeley B10101030
NorthwesternTruman State010010
South CarolinaTexas0000
VirginiaKentucky1001020
WUSTL AJohns Hopkins010010
WaterlooChicago D010010
Yale ACornell B010010
Yale BStanford010010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2111.4367%33%14%