Self-disclosure by the Listener's Response Request Utterance:

From a Comparison of First-time Conversations between Japanese and Chinese Native Speakers

Abstract

In the case of a first-time conversation, interaction to gather information is crucial for striking up the conversation between unfamiliar participants. In this paper, the comparison of the behavior between Japanese native (JN) and Chinese native (CN) speakers were studied regarding the response request utterance from the listener and the subsequent self-disclosure of the speaker. The result revealed that CN listeners were inclined to exchange information actively through frequent questioning, but JN listeners interchanged information in modest amounts since utilized plenty of implicit request utterances.