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Publication details [#37674]

Wetzel, Patricia J. 1988. Are "powerless" communication strategies the Japanese norm? Language in Society 17 (4) : 555–564.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | intercultural communication | power | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper shows that the contrast between the Western and Japanese notions of power is a key to comprehension of misunderstanding between Japan and the West.