Applicability of Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory to a Non-Western Culture
To examine applicability of Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory to facework in a non-Western culture, we conducted a questionnaire survey of native Japanese speakers. A rank order of influences on facework behavior was investigated among the five factors: (a) intrinsic factor (R i ; that is, effe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-12-01
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| Series: | SAGE Open |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012470116 |