Stereotyping Communicative Styles In and Out of the Language and Culture classroom: Japanese Indirectness, Ambiguity and Vagueness (2009)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. (2009). Stereotyping Communicative Styles In and Out of the Language and Culture classroom: Japanese Indirectness, Ambiguity and Vagueness. In R. Gomez Moron, M. Padilla Cruz, L. Fernandez Amaya, & M. De la O Hernandez Lopez (Eds.), Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The stereotype of reserved and evasive Japanese people, whose language naturally fosters ambiguity and an intuitive and indirect style, pervades popular as well as pedagogical discourse. Despite evidence that, depending on the situation, Japanese can... Read More about Stereotyping Communicative Styles In and Out of the Language and Culture classroom: Japanese Indirectness, Ambiguity and Vagueness.