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Download full textTrent, Nobuko – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1998
Every language has different systems for expressing third party information. While in some languages grammar rules stipulate how to do this, in both Japanese and English the degree of indirection or direction a speaker should use to express information obtained as hearsay is genuinely a pragmatic language issue. English speakers tend to express…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis
