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Publication details [#13898]
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
3-906765-30-X
Annotation
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.