"Kuki ga yomenai": Situated face-threatening act within Japanese social interaction

Japonya’daki yabancı öğrenci sayısı son zamanlarda oldukça artmıştır. Bu öğrencilerin karşılaşmaları muhtemel ve üstesinden gelmeyi başarmaları gereken zorluk sözel olmayan iletişimle alakalıdır. Aka, söylemin “atmosferi” Kuki olarak adlandırılmaktadır. Bir çok çalışmada vurgulandığı üzere Japon söyleminde uygunluk durumunu sağlayabilmede Kuki en önemli unsurlardan bir tanesidir. Ilgili unsurun eksikliği durumunda, kişiye “Kuki ga Yomenai” (KY) yaftası yapıştırılabilir ve söylem toplumunda dışlanabilir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, “Kuki ga Yomenai” algısının ne derecede imge zedeleyici edimlerden (İZE) ya da söylemde oluşan yine imge zedeleyici edimlerden etkilendiğini araştırmaktır. Dolayısıyla, bu çalışma nitel görüşmeler aracılığı ile KY algısının İZE durumlarına nasıl bağlı olduğunu açıklamaktadır.

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.

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