Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening - Hardcover
by Haru Yamada
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Language:EnglishPublisher:BalanceISBN-13:9780306837647ISBN-10:306837641UPC:9780306837647Book Category:Self-Help, Philosophy, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Communication & Social Skills, Eastern, FriendshipSize:9.20 x 6.27 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCXBGZ1QEW
Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening
Inspired by the Japanese concept of kiku--a more engaged, empathetic style of listening--a sociolinguistics researcher and writer offers a ground-breaking guide to more intentional and meaningful communication. No other life form turns noise into sound, sound into language, then language into understanding quite the way we humans do when we listen. As a sociolinguist who grew up in different...
Language:EnglishPublisher:BalanceISBN-13:9780306837647ISBN-10:306837641UPC:9780306837647Book Category:Self-Help, Philosophy, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Communication & Social Skills, Eastern, FriendshipSize:9.20 x 6.27 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCXBGZ1QEW
Haru Yamada is a sociolinguistics researcher and writer with a PhD from Georgetown University. A distinction of her doctoral dissertation on conversational analysis of bankers' meetings led to the publication of American and Japanese Business Discourse, where she introduced the idea of speaker- and listener-led conversations. Developing her concept of listener-led conversations in a publication...
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