Different games, different rules : why Americans and Japanese misunderstand each other / Haru Yamada ; with a foreword by Deborah Tannen.

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...

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Main Author: Yamada, Haru
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Inside OutNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.