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Title: | Requests in Japanese:A Study through E-mail Messages |
Authors: | FUKUSHIMA, Saeko |
Other Authors: | 福島, 佐江子 |
Language: | en |
NCID: | AA11162950 |
Journal Title: | 都留文科大学大学院紀要 |
刊行日付: | 2012-03-19 |
Issue: | 16 |
ISSN: | 1880-1439 |
Start Page: | 45 |
End Page: | 63 |
Abstract: | Although Japanese people have been often said to be indirect, the results of some recent studies
(e.g., Fukushima 1996; Fukushima 2000; Rose 1994; Rose 1996) challenge this prevailing belief.
This study attempts to investigate Japanese requests in present day Japan to examine this alternative
viewpoint. The data used in this study were e-mail messages of requests by Japanese university
students. Direct-indirect and informal-formal scales were taken into account in determining the
request strategies and eight request strategies were used in the analysis. The results showed that
bald-on-record and positive politeness strategies, which were direct and informal, were most frequently
used, when there was no power difference between S and H and when S and H were close. The
data collection method and a channel of communication may have influenced low occurrence of
off-record strategies. |
Type: | Departmental Bulletin Paper |
Textversion: | publisher |
URI: | http://trail.tsuru.ac.jp/dspace/handle/trair/577 |
Keywords: | politeness Japanese e-mail requests |
Appears in Collections: | 第16集
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