One of my favorite favorite books about pragmatics is Deborah Tannen’s That’s not what I meant!, which deals with the balance between directness and indirectness in communication.
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"Japanese directness and indirectness across situations: Focusing on refining the ingroup-outgroup distinction" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Marriott Hotel, San Diego, CA, May 27, 2003 <Not Available>.
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Directness vs. indirectness: Egyptian Arabic and US English communication style ..... The effects of country, gender, and status on directness/indirectness ...
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Taking a general speech-act approach and a linguistic pragmatics analysis to determine the incidence of directness and indirectness, the author then uses cultural analysis to understand why the writers used directness and indirectness.
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Directness and Indirectness in Spoken Discourse; A Comparison of Japanese and Norwegian Business Executives. ... The interviews are to be analyzed with a view manifestation of directness and indirectness from a linguistic perspective. A third research question is the question of acculturation. Do Japanese and...
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  A word dropped from the tongue cannot be brought back by four horses.
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Although many of us value directness, indirectness does have its place. At times, conveying information indirectly can be a safe way — sometimes the only safe way — to preserve or restore wellbeing and comity within the organization. ... Many cultures (including my own) value directness, but indirectness has its uses,
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Goffman, 1971). Individuals generally employ consistent styles when responding to refusal situations, and these strategies of refusal can be ordered on a directness-indirectness continuum (Ting-Toomey et al., 1991). The nature of the relationship between the individual and the group in the society has been...
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Figure 1 shows the distribution of request head acts in percentages across the five situations at each level of directness: direct, conventional indirectness, and non-conventional indirectness. Figure 1. Distribution of Request Head Acts in Mexican Spanish (N = 10;
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