PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNICATION IN JAPANESE INDIRECTNESS AND HEDGING

Magdalena Ciubancan
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Magdalena Ciubancan: “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University

Romanian Economic Business Review, 2015, vol. 10, issue 4, 246-253

Abstract: This paper is an insight into the way in which indirectness is achieved in Japanese communication. We present two cultural principles that govern the Japanese culture— wa(harmony) and face — and we briefly discuss the role they play in the indirect style of communication that characterizes the Japanese. The relation between culture and language is further detailed in the section on indirectness and language, where we present the linguistic manifestations of indirectness, identifying the main strategies used for achieving indirectness and focusing on hedging, as a typical example of indirectnessstrategies.

Date: 2015
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