Publications

Publication details [#56531]

Park, Hee Sun, Hye Eun Lee, Tatsuya Imai and Daniel Dolan. 2012. Cultural Differences Between Japan and the United States in Uses of “Apology” and “Thank You” in Favor Asking Messages. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 31 (3) : 263–289.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | face maintenance | favor asking | language and culture | thanking

Language as a subject

English, American | Japanese

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores whether apologies and thanks are differently employed in US and Japanese favor asking e-mail messages and whether their usage causes these message to become less face-threatening.