Native-speaker behavior in Australian-Japanese business communication

Marriott, Helen

doi:10.1515/ijsl.1991.92.87

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“…The data are comparable to data from other "partner" contact situations (Fan 1994) involving Japanese participants such as studied in Melbourne Brought to you by | Tokyo Daigaku Authenticated Download Date | 5/24/15 7:53 PM (Asaoka 1987;Marriott 1991; and others), Hong Kong (Fan 1992), and Japan (Fairbrother 1999(Fairbrother , 2000. However, as mentioned above, this study has concentrated on short-term sojourners of a particular type within situations of the "daily life domain.…”

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confidence: 75%

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Japanese students in Prague. Problems of communication and interaction

Neustupný¹

2003

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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Participants in inter cultural contact situations experience communication and interaction "problems." They also derive "gratification" as a result of positive evaluations. This paper presents a survey of ten Japanese students of the Czech language who stayed in Prague and at various other locations in the Czech Republic over the summer vacation. The method used in this paper was the "interaction interview" and concentrated on actual behavior of the students, as opposed to reports based on questionnaires or traditional interviews, on a single day of their stay. The study shows that "problems" as well as "gratifications" actually occur and offers a number of observations on the processes involved. The author's ultimate concern is with policies but the paper also attends to a number of more general theoretical and methodological issues. The present studyEurope is not a closed space. Borders change, people come and go and the process of human contact and exchange engenders profits and losses, knowledge and prejudice, understanding and misunderstanding. There is interaction and communication; sentences are exchanged. This process has always been undergoing changes, reflected in our perceptions. Researchers have moved emphasis from minorities to immigrants and guest workers (Bremer et al. 1996). But there are yet other types of contact personnel: among them tourists, students, and other middle-to short-term sojourners.What is the actual form of this intercultural contact? How is it managed, and in what ways does differential power affect it? More than ever before we must seek rigorous methods to face the contact situation, solve its problems, and reinforce its gratifications.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

“…Marriott 1990). For example at least some of the communicative behavior of Czech service personnel, for example counter service in the hostel cafeteria, was judged strictly (S3).…”

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confidence: 99%

Japanese students in Prague. Problems of communication and interaction

Neustupný¹

2003

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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“…However, the terms 'pidgin' or 'pidginisation' have been used for phenomena as diverse as English loans in languages such as German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish (Ardila 2005;Bergmann 2001;Haller 1987;Hensel 1999;Oshima 2002;Ustinova 2005: 243-4), English as such, due to its role as an international lingua franca (Aldea 1987), various foreign influences in written language (Duszak 2002: 16;Kann 1999), Anglophone schoolchildren's limited French (Hammerly 1987), first or second language immigrant varieties such as broken Swedish among immigrants in Stockholm, Greek as spoken in Australia, and the Spanish of Latin Americans in Sweden (Kotsinas 1996(Kotsinas , 2001Tamis 1990;Borgström 1991), majority influences on linguistic minorities, such as Min-influenced English in Malaysia, Englishinfluenced French in Maine and French-influenced varieties of Alsatian German (Birken-Silverman 1997;Ladin 1982: 77;Crevenant-Werner 1993: 185;Lee 1996;Schweda 1980), the speech of EU bureaucrats in Brussels (Dietze 1976) and even the use of first names by Australian businessmen in their contacts with Japanese colleagues (Marriott 1991). One possibility could be to accept everything as a pidgin that has been so labelled by one or more authors.…”

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confidence: 99%