Tae-Seop Lim
8Verbal communication across cultures
Abstract: This chapter reviews the development of research on cultural differences in verbal communication. Progressing from a philosophical stage to a theoretical stage, then to a practical stage, the research efforts have generated a great number of important findings. This chapter discusses Boasian linguistic philosophy along with Whorf-Sapir hypotheses, cross-cultural studies done by anthropologist Edward T. Hall’s, sociolinguistic research on address terms, and language and relationship, Austin and Searle’s speech act theory and conversation analysis research on the use of a variety of speech acts, face and politeness, and different cultural values on speech and expressiveness. The research ...
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