Exercise
2: Observing
Compliments in Japanese - 2
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Aside
from the strategy of using an
appropriate level of politeness (notice the polite but friendly tone of the
student in Situation 2), another strategy to be learned here is maintaining appropriate distance in giving
compliments. While in Situation 1,
two friends might go on and talk about the sort of store she got the T-shirts
in and even the amont of money she paid for it, in Situation 2, the student would
not ask the instructor the cost of her clothing! Unless the student were exceptionally close
to the instructor and asked it in private, such a question would be too
personal for an instructor in the classroom.
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