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Japanese politeness revisited: from the perspective of attentiveness on Twitter

  • Saeko Fukushima

    Saeko Fukushima is Professor Emerita at Tsuru University in Japan and a visiting senior research fellow at HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests include cross-cultural pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, metapragmatics and im/politeness. Her publications include Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese (2000/2002/2003, Peter Lang), Metapragmatics of Attentiveness: A Study in Interpersonal and Cross-cultural Pragmatics (2020, Equinox) and a number of articles in international journals and edited books.

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Published/Copyright: March 13, 2024
Journal of Politeness Research
From the journal Journal of Politeness Research Volume 20 Issue 2

Abstract

Previous research has shown that attentiveness (kikubari) is a significant aspect of politeness in Japanese. The aim of this paper is to expand on earlier research on attentiveness by using Twitter data and examine how Japanese lay people understand and/or evaluate attentiveness and how attentiveness manifests politeness. The data for this study were 600 Japanese tweets which contain attentiveness. They were coded based on analysis of the content and analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results show that Japanese lay people evaluate attentiveness positively and that they think attentiveness is important in most cases. These results reflect a commonly held belief in Japanese culture, namely that attentiveness is a virtue. In some posts, the demonstrators of attentiveness appeared to infer the needs of the potential recipients and made pre-emptive offers, as they had known the situations of the potential recipients. Attentiveness in such posts coincides with the definition of attentiveness in previous research. In some other posts, attentiveness is used in the sense of consideration, which was included in the conceptualisation of politeness in Japanese. These results confirmed earlier findings and further our understanding of them through concrete examples from Twitter.

Keywords: interpersonal pragmatics; politeness; Japanese; attentiveness; microblogging
Corresponding author: Saeko Fukushima, Tsuru University, Yamanashi, Japan, E-mail:

Funding source: Hungarian National Research and Development Fund

Award Identifier / Grant number: TKP2021-NKTA-02

About the author

Saeko Fukushima

Saeko Fukushima is Professor Emerita at Tsuru University in Japan and a visiting senior research fellow at HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests include cross-cultural pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, metapragmatics and im/politeness. Her publications include Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese (2000/2002/2003, Peter Lang), Metapragmatics of Attentiveness: A Study in Interpersonal and Cross-cultural Pragmatics (2020, Equinox) and a number of articles in international journals and edited books.

Acknowledgments

I would like to express my gratitude to two anonymous referees for their invaluable comments. I am also indebted to Jim O’Driscoll, Maria Sifianou and Yansheng Mao for their continuous encouragement. All remaining errors are my own. This study was supported by TKP2021-NKTA-02, issued by the Hungarian National Research and Development Fund.

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Accepted: 2024-02-04
Published Online: 2024-03-13
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https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2023-0042
Keywords for this article
interpersonal pragmatics; politeness; Japanese; attentiveness; microblogging

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  2. Research Articles
  3. E-mpoliteness – creative impoliteness as an expression of digital social capital
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