Publications

Publication details [#39797]

Kim, Min-Sun and Kazuya Hara. 2004. The effect of self-construals on conversational indirectness. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 28 (1) : 1–18.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | indirectness | interpretation | meaning | message1

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study uses Holtgraves’ Conversational Indirectness Scale to explore individuals' preference for expressing meaning directly or indirectly, and their tendency to look for indirect meanings in other people's messages.