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Creider, Chet A. – 1978
Data from videotaped conversations in a number of East African languages and in English are used to establish the existence of a preference in the African interactional systems for the use of verbal feedback by listeners in contrast to a preference for the use of non-verbal (gaze, head nod) feedback in English. This difference is related to…
Descriptors: African Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, Body Language, Cultural Context
