%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°KUKI GA YOMENAI¡±: SITUATED FACE-THREATENING ACT WITHIN JAPANESE SOCIAL INTERACTION
%A Yoichi SATO
%J Novitas-ROYAL
%D 2010
%I Novitas-ROYAL
%X The number of foreign students has mushroomed in Japan lately. One of the cultural difficulties they are most likely to encounter and should overcome resides in non-verbal communication resources; aka, the ¡°atmosphere¡± of the discourse is called as Kuki. A number of studies delineated that the sensitivity to Kuki is one of the essential aspects to establish rapport in Japanese discourse; otherwise, you will be labeled as ¡°Kuki ga Yomenai¡± (KY) and marginalized from the discourse community. This study investigates how the perception of ¡°Kuki ga Yomenai¡± is affected by the degree of face-threatening act (FTA), or FTA occurring in the discourse. Therefore, this study attempts to demonstrate how the perception of KY depends on the occurrence of FTAs based upon qualitative interviews.
%K face-threatening act
%K Japanese
%K discourse analysis
%K qualitative research
%K sociolinguistics
%U http://novitasroyal.org/Vol_4_2/sato.pdf