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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERCEIVED POLITENESS NORMS. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, March 2009, Pages: 224
This book explores the perceptions of politeness-related behaviors in three groups. Two are groups of Japanese, one of which has been living in southern communities, while the other has recently arrived from Japan to study English. The third community consists of southerners living in McComb and Jackson, Mississippi. The goal has been to learn about each groups' views of themselves and the others in the same domain (i.e. politeness).
The interview findings indicate mutual positive views held by the American and Japanese participants. However, a closer look at responses to a set of discourse completion tasks shows differing patterns for refusal communications for the Japanese and American participants. The study shows that the participants' refusals are influenced by situations, such as status differences, relationships between requester and requestee, and high necessity requests.
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