Request Strategies in British English and Japanese  

Oleh:

Fukushima, Saeko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 3-4 (1996), page 671-688.
Topik: Requests; Strategies; Politeness; British English; Japanese
Fulltext: 18_03-04_Fukushima.pdf (1.31MB)

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This paper examines English production by British subjects and Japanese production by Japanese subjects in request situations. A previous study (Fukushima, 1994) selected comparable request situations between British and Japanese cultures among which, two situations were used in this study: one which was assessed as a request with low imposition on the requestee and the other which was assessed as a request with high imposition on the rcquestee. The results showed that more politeness strategies were employed both in English and in Japanese when the degree of imposition increased. A closer investigation, however, revealed some differences between English and Japanese request strategies.

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