Conversational Game Across Cultures

跨文化对话游戏

• 批准号: 21730488
• 负责人: YEUNG WaiLanVictoria
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Hokkaido University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2009 至 2010
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21730488/
• 关键词: cross-cultural psychology; indirectness; communicative strategy; Cross-cultural study; relational mobility; Indirectness; cross-cultural differences; communication; speech act

The goal of this research is twofold. First, to empirically demonstrate a cultural difference in linguistic expressions between people with East-Asian cultural background and Western cultural background ; second, to examine the mechanism that underlies such cultural difference. Past research and theoretical arguments tend to suggest that East-Asians are more likely to express in an indirect manner, while Westerners are more likely to express in a more direct manner. We conducted three cross-cultural studies comparing how people from a western culture, Americans, and an East-Asian culture, Japanese, might express themselves in a different manner in terms of directness, and we explored the reasons behind such cultural differences. Our empirical data from the three studies are contradictory to the popular observations and that of the past psycholinguistic theories. Basically, our data showed that Japanese were more likely to use direct expressions than Americans, and Americans were more likely to use indirect expressions than Japanese. Our results also showed that such cultural difference was due to that Americans had a strong motivation to extend their social network.

这项研究的目标是双重的。首先，从经验上证明了具有东亚文化背景和西方文化背景的人之间语言表达的文化差异；其次，检查了这种文化差异的基础的机制。过去的研究和理论论点倾向于表明，东亚洲人更有可能以间接的方式表达，而西方人更有可能以更直接的方式表达。我们进行了三项跨文化研究，比较了西方文化，美国人和东亚洲文化的人们如何在直接性方面以不同的方式表达自己，我们探讨了这种文化差异背后的原因。我们来自这三项研究的经验数据与过去的心理学理论的流行观察矛盾。基本上，我们的数据表明，日本人比美国人更有可能使用直接表达，而美国人比日本人更可能使用间接表达。我们的结果还表明，这种文化差异是由于美国人具有扩展社交网络的强大动力。

项目成果

Culture and Stereotype Communication : Are people from Eastern cultures more stereotypical in communication?

文化与刻板印象交流：来自东方文化的人在交流中是否更刻板？

• 发表时间: 2011
• 期刊: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology in press.
• 作者: Yeung;W.L.V.;Kashima;Y.
• 通讯作者: Y.

Do Americans find it easier to speak directly and Japanese find it easier to speak indirectly?

美国人觉得直接说话更容易，而日本人觉得间接说话更容易吗？

• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Working paper series
• 作者: Yeung;W.L.V.;Yuki;M.;Chao;M.
• 通讯作者: M.

Americans find it easier to speak directly andJapanese find it easier to speak indirectly?

美国人觉得直接说话更容易，日本人觉得间接说话更容易？

• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: Center for Experimental Research in Socia 1 Sciences, Working paper series
• 作者: Yeung;W.L.V.;Yuki;M.;Chao,M.
• 通讯作者: Chao,M.