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Acquaintance or Fiancee: Pragmatic Differences in Requests between Japanese and Americans.

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Kubota, Mitsuo – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1996

A study investigated differences in the speech styles used in making requests among five native speakers of Japanese (JJ), five American learners of Japanese (AJ), and Americans speaking English (AE) and their implications for intercultural communication. All subjects were adults. Data were elicited in role-plays of a scenario including the…

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Business Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics