Japanese business communication in Australian style: Building interpersonal relationship at workplace
(2004) Japanese business communication in Australian style: Building interpersonal relationship at workplace. In Bailey, C. and Cabrera, D. and Buys, L., Eds. Proceedings Social Change in the 21st Century Conference, Centre for Social Change Research.
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Abstract
Intercultural business communication is becoming a common place in the modern world where business is conducted across the borders of countries. The research into intercultural business communication is also gaining increasing popularity amongst researchers in business communication, linguistics and social sciences. The purpose of this paper is to describe various strategies being used to establish solidarity amongst employees of a Japanese company operating in Australia. As Japanese people consider expressing and maintaining appropriate levels of politeness within their communication to be one of the most important aspects, I will use politeness as a key to analysing the solidarity amongst the employees. In addition, the unique nature of bilingual working environment, especially mixing of different languages within the same interaction, will be considered when making comparison with monolingual working environment
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Published |
| Subjects: | 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370107 Social Change 420000 Language and Culture > 420100 Language Studies > 420113 Japanese |
| ID Code: | 634 |
| Deposited By: | Callan, Paula |
| Deposited On: | 21 December 2004 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2004 Yasuhisa Watanabe |