Language Behavior of Making Requests and Attitudes Concerning"Enryo"and "Sasshi"

本研究调查了母语使用者和非母语使用者用日语提出请求的语言行为。通过比较母语和非母语人士的话语，本研究确定了语言群体提出请求的形式和数量特征。此外，研究人员还编制了“日语enryo - sashi交际量表”，以衡量参与者对其语言行为的感知在多大程度上支持enryo和sashi（被广泛认为是日语交际风格的特征，与请求密切相关的社会文化概念），并阐释了语言群体对enryo和sashi的取向差异。

This study investigated the language behavior of making requests in Japanese by native and nonnative users of the language. By comparing utterances produced by native and nonnative speakers, the study identified formal and quantitative features of request-making by language group. Furthermore, the investigators developed a "Japanese Enryo-Sasshi Communication Scale" to measure to what extent the participants' perceptions of their language behavior support enryo and sasshi, sociocultural concepts that are widely recognized as characteristic of Japanese communication style and are closely related to request-making, and elucidated differences in orientation to enryo and sasshi by language group.