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100 1 Yamada, Haru.
245 10 Different games, different rules :|bwhy Americans and
Japanese misunderstand each other /|cHaru Yamada ; with a
foreword by Deborah Tannen.
260 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c1997.
300 1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; PREFACE;
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; A FEW NOTES ON THE
TEXT; 1: Two Stories, Two Games; Strong Independence,
Sweet Interdependence; Mind Your Own Business; Do as You
Please!; Talking Guns, Stalking Swords; Different Playing
Fields; 2: Communication Equipment; We Think, Therefore We
Are; A Question of Timing; Basic and Optional Equipment;
Verbs that Give Up; Close and Yet so Uneven; Order of
Play; 3: Speak for Yourself, Listen to Others; Call Me
Dave; Depends on Who; Just Say Yes; Have a Nice Day;
Greetings of Action, Greetings of Care.
505 8 Basic Strategies For Players of Speaker TalkBasic
Strategies For Players of Listener Talk; 4: Taking Care of
Business; Business is Business, Business is Family;
Customized versus Shared Work; Individual Choice, Group
Ensemble; Team Stars, Borrowed Individuals; Promises:
Words on Paper, Sounds in the Air; 5: Open for Business;
Talk about Talk; Name Your Own Deal; And that's Just the
Beginning; Silent Shifters; Home Strategies at Away Games;
6: Scoring Points; It's My Deal: Present, Past, and
Future; It's Not Our Talk, It's an Example; Hanashi: Then
there's Another Story.
505 8 You Don't Know What You're Talking About7: Support
Network; The Rhythm of Talk; Different Rhythms; What's so
Funny?; Taking Turns: The Ball Machine of Conversation; 8:
The Truth about Teasing, Praising, and Repeating; What's
in a Tease?; Praised to Death; Repeated and Parallel
Truths; Mismatch; 9: Role Models: Working Man, Nurturing
Mother; Mothers, Working Women, Housewives; Terms of
Relationship; When Difference isn't Worse; When Difference
is a Minority; Mothering Bosses; How it All Begins; 10:
You Are What You Speak; In the Beginning; Becoming
American, Staying Japanese; Mirror, Mirror.
505 8 Inside OutNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.
520 Japan and the United States are in closer contact
politically and economically than ever before, yet in many
ways our nations are as far from mutual understanding as
ever. Misconceptions and miscommunications between East
and West continue to plague this important relationship,
frustrating the best efforts of both cultures to work
together. Stereotypes abound: Americans see Japanese as
evasive and inscrutable, while Japanese see Americans as
pushy and selfish. What causes these persistent
misunderstandings, and what can be done to avoid them?
Fluent in both languages and at home in both cultures,
Haru Yamada brings an insiders perspective and a linguists
training to this difficult question, illuminating the many
reasons why Americans and Japanese misunderstand one
another. Social organization, she explains, shapes the way
we talk. Because American and Japanese cultures value
different kinds of social relationships, they play
different language games with different sets of rules. In
America, for instance, Aesops fable about the grasshopper
and the ants ends with the ants scorning the foolhardy
grasshopper.; In Japan, however, the story has a very
different ending: the ants invite the grasshopper in to
share their winter meal, as they appreciate how his
singing spurred them on during their summer labors. In the
difference between these two endings, argues Yamada, lies
an important lesson: Americans, because of their unique
political history, value independence and individuality,
while Japanese value mutual dependency and
interconnectedness. The language of both cultures is
designed to display and reinforce these values so that
words, phrases and expressions in one language can have
completely different connotations in another, leading to
all manner of misunderstanding. Yamada provides numerous
examples. In Japan, for instance, silence is valued and
halting speech is considered more honest and thoughtful
than fluid speech, while in America forthright, polished
speech is valued. Likewise, the Japanese use word order to
express emphasis, while Americans use vocal stress: a
listener unaware of this difference may easily
misunderstand the import of a sentence.; In a lucid and
insightful discussion, Yamada outlines the basic
differences between Japanese and American English and
analyses a number of real-life business and social
interactions in which these differences led to
miscommunication. By understanding how and why each
culture speaks in the way that it does, Yamada shows, we
can learn to avoid frustrating and damaging failures of
communication. Different Games, Different Rules is
essential reading for anyone who travels to or
communicates regularly with Japan, whether they are
scientists, scholars, tourists, or business executives.
But as Deborah Tannen notes in her Foreword to the book,
even those who will never travel to Japan, do business
with a Japanese company, or talk to a person from that
part of the world, will find the insights of this book
illuminating and helpful, because the greatest benefit
that comes of understanding another culture is a better
and deeper understanding of one's own.
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