An Instance of American and Chinese Politeness Strategy 87  

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Nash, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 14 no. 2 (Dec. 1983), page 87-98.
Topik: American and Chinese Politeness Strategy
Fulltext: RELC 1983,VOL.14,NO.2 hal 87-98.pdf (540.31KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/REL/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper reports on a small-scale investigation of the politeness strategies used by American and Chinese subjects improvising the same situation. In the terms of Brown and Levinson (1978), Americans favored negative politeness and Chinese preferred positive politeness. These preferences are in accord with the American individual- centered and the Chinese situation-centered ways of life discussed by Hsu (1981). However, inasmuch as some researchers have argued that the United States has a positive politeness culture, the results of the study argue against the crude classification of cultures into politeness types, suggesting instead that politeness strategies are more situation-specific.

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