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Koike, Dale A. – Hispania, 1986
Reports a study of the correlation of linguistic variation with the variables of gender and context specificity in Brazilian Portuguese. The study focused on differences found in the expression of a particular directive by adult middle-class male and female speakers of the Carioca dialect of Rio de Janeiro. (SED)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
Kitao, Kenji; And Others – 1987
A study sought to determine differences in politeness strategies used in requests by American college students (N=80), Japanese students in the United States (N=34), and Japanese students in Japan (N=103). Subjects rated 61 requests in four different situations (differing in terms of addressee level and interrogative, declarative, and imperative…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English, Factor Analysis