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Publication details [#50978]

Fukushima, Saeko. 2009. Evaluation of politeness: Do the Japanese evaluate attentiveness more positively than the British? Pragmatics 19 (4) : 501–518.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | evaluation | language and culture | politeness | university

Language as a subject

English, British | Japanese

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper explores and compares how British and Japanese university students evaluate the politenesss strategy of attentiveness in six attentiveness situations. Significant differences are found between British and Japanese participants in four situations.