Panel Chair: Di FANG

Panel Papers:
Nominalization as a means of “cutting chase” to the topic via ostensible common ground: Where Japanese and Korean contrast
Kaoru HORIE

Receipt of information and topic management: A multimodal analysis of sooka/sokka in Japanese conversation
Yukun LI, Tomoko ENDO

Topic Construction in Chinese and Japanese: A Comparative Study of Syntactic Co-construction
Suhong HU

Exploring Topic Changes Following Delicate Questions: Normativity in Questions and Anti-Normativity in Dispreferred Responses
Hongyue WEN