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REQUESTS AND CULTURE - SAEKO FUKUSHIMA KARTONIE...

This book presents a cross-cultural comparison between British and Japanese cultures focusing
on requests and responses. The study is based on data elicited from a questionnaire which lists
the choices of strategies for making requests and responding to off-record requests  taking
into account the variables power  social distance and imposition. The author's findings suggest
important refinements to Brown and Levinson's politeness categorisation and question the
validity of cultural stereotypes. Drawing on the distinction between individualist and
collectivist cultures  this study also accounts for differences between the politeness
strategies in British English and Japanese.

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