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Kachru, Yamuna Rose, Kenneth Richard 2011-05-07T13:11:11Z 2011-05-07T13:11:11Z 10000-01-01 1992 The Cross Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP), the most ambitious speech act research to date, focused on western languages and cultures and employed questionnaires in data collection. The results showed conventionally indirect requests to be the most favored for all languages studied, and hints the least frequent. Japanese interaction is said to be hearer-oriented, thus vague and indirect, so a study of requests in Japanese should reveal a greater preference for hints. However, since questionnaires do not reflect the negotiated nature of actual interaction, they may not be a valid means of data collection in Japanese. To address these issues, a discourse completion test (DCT) and a multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) were administered to speakers Japanese and English. The DCT showed Japanese to be more direct than Americans. There were also significant differences between the DCT and MCQ results for both languages. Both groups chose to forego requests more frequently on the MCQ than on the DCT, and Japanese also chose to hint more frequently on the MCQ than on the DCT. These results argue against the use of elicited data, particularly in non-Western contexts. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:11:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9236583.pdf: 6397636 bytes, checksum: 4a0de08faaafd5aef71e23ab25d061cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:51:23Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:23:34-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9236583 (UMI)AAI9236583 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/21525 eng Copyright 1992 Rose, Kenneth Richard Language, Linguistics Method and scope in cross-cultural speech act research: A contrastive study of requests in Japanese and English text Dissertation Ph.D. Linguistics Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign