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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)
Download full textBartell, Carol A.; Willis, David B. – 1987
Guided by interpretive ethnographic methods and by instructional leadership concepts, this comparative study of secondary principals in Japan and America discovers characteristics of excellent principals and examines their values in relation to dominant cultural themes. The investigation applies anthropologist Clifford Goertz's assumptions (1973,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
