Politeness, Paradigms of Family, and the Japanese ESL Speaker

Politeness, Paradigms of Family, and the Japanese ESL Speaker

This paper addresses the issue of linguistic-politeness dysfunction in Japanese ESL speakers within a theoretical framework that sees shared assumptions concerning Power and Distance differentials as crucial. Developing the notion that linguistic politeness is a function of a status-dependent and co...

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Main Author: Conlan, Chris
Format: Journal Article
Published: 1996
Subjects:
Social distance
ESL
social power
Japanese
Politeness
social role
Family
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30684

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30684

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