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Download full textMorizumi, Fumi – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1997
A study investigated how a television talk show host manipulates the social and psychological distances in the television show context to entertain guests and audience. An ethnographic approach was taken to the research, and analysis focused on the use of politeness strategies and face-saving and face-threatening interactions. The television talk…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Broadcast Television, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis
Iwamoto, Noriko – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1998
A study demonstrates the existence of a wartime register in Japanese newspaper journalism and characterizes its major linguistic and stylistic features. Special emphasis is placed on the aspect of modality as related to point of view. Modality expresses the mode within which the propositional content of a sentence is presented as certain,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits, Discourse Analysis
