This book examines attentiveness, which is briefly defined as a demonstrator\'s pre-emptive responses to a recipient\'s verbal or nonverbal cues or situations surrounding a recipient and a demonstrator, which takes the form of offering.
She is the author of Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese (Peter Lang 2000)..
About the Author Saeko Fukushima is Professor in the Department of English at Tsuru University in Japan.
It is also shown that attentiveness is one of the constituents of politeness, which indicates that attentiveness is closely related to politeness.
This suggests that attentiveness, which is thought to be a virtue in Japanese culture, is not unique to Japanese culture, and that attentiveness is an important Interpersonal notion elsewhere, too.
Although some differences in demonstration or evaluation of attentiveness are found cross-culturally, similarities outweigh differences.
Therefore, Cross-cultural and cross-generational comparisons on demonstration and evaluation of attentiveness are included.
Generation can be considered as one of the sub-groups of culture.
Attentiveness may be demonstrated or evaluated differently within different cultures.
Thus, both demonstration and evaluation of attentiveness are investigated in the book.
Evaluation by a recipient of attentiveness is considered since recent research suggests that im/politeness resides in evaluation.
It also suggests the importance of taking an interdisciplinary perspective in im/politeness research, the importance of nonlinguistically manifested politeness and the heart perspective.
It elucidates what attentiveness is, and addresses the importance of attentiveness in im/politeness research.
This book examines attentiveness, which is briefly defined as a demonstrator\'s pre-emptive responses to a recipient\'s verbal or nonverbal cues or situations surrounding a recipient and a demonstrator, which takes the form of offering
