Vygotskyan Sociolinguistic Theory Applied to Negotiation in Japanese Society  

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McCreary, Don R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 2 (1986), page 141-151.
Fulltext: 08_02_McCreary_01.pdf (517.04KB)

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Vygotsky's (1962) theory of language as a sociocultural derivative is applicable to the Japanese culture and language. Japanese, with its hierarchical system (Nakane, 1970) and highly developed nominal and verbal systems (Suzuki, 1978) provides a cogent example to demonstrate the validity of Vygotskyan theory. The relevance of Vygotskyan constructs for titles, naming, meishi, and keigo or k6go selection will be discussed with examples from and applications to business negotiations between Japanese and Americans. The concepts of control and dynamic access to the regulatory functions of object-, other-, and self-regulation (Vygotsky, 1962), situation of def'mition 0Vertsch, 1982), symmetrical and assymetrical settings (Rommetveit, 1979), and inner speech surfacing as private speech (exemplified in Mizutani, 1981) are employed to describe and explain the pragmatics of Japanese-American negotiation. Other-regulation, given the dependency relationship termed amae (Doi, 1973), is hypothesized to be explanatory for many hierarchical relations, while self-regulation within a specified symmetry and situation of def'mition is viewed as explanatory for non-hierarchical discourse. Vygotskyan sociolinguistic theory, taken apriori, is appropriate for descriptive and explanatory discourse analysis of the Japanese and American-English speech acts in a negotiation setting. With further discussion and research, this theory, too long confined to native language acquisition, has the potential for valuable insights within a dynamic framework for examining crosscultural negotiations and the impact of culture on both languages

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