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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
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