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100 1  Yamada, Haru.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n91078893 
245 10 Different games, different rules :|bwhy Americans and 
       Japanese misunderstand each other /|cHaru Yamada ; with a 
       foreword by Deborah Tannen. 
264  1 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c1997. 
300    1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages) 
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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. 
588 0  Print version record. 
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aYamada, Haru.|tDifferent games, 
       different rules.|dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1997
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