Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese - Softcover

Fukushima, Saeko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3039100459 ISBN 13: 9783039100453

Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publis, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This book presents a cross-cultural comparison between British and Japanese cultures focusing on requests and responses. The study is based on data elicited from a questionnaire which lists the choices of strategies for making requests and responding to off-record requests, taking into account the variables power, social distance and imposition. The author's findings suggest important refinements to Brown and Levinson's politeness categorisation and question the validity of cultural stereotypes. Drawing on the distinction between individualist and collectivist cultures, this study also accounts for differences between the politeness strategies in British English and Japanese.

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Biografía del autor:

The Author: Saeko Fukushima is Professor of English at Tsuru University in Japan. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Reading in England.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publis
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 3039100459
• ISBN 13: 9783039100453
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316