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Peer reviewedConlan, Christopher J. – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses differences between perception of politeness in Western and Japanese societies, concentrating on relations of social power and social distance as well as on conception of family. Concludes that many problems experienced by Japanese speakers of English as a Second Language in accomplishing linguistic politeness in English stem from nature…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
