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Agreement, disagreement, and indifference

Authored by: Naomi H. McGloin , Mutsuko Endo Hudson , Fumiko Nazikian , Tomomi Kakegawa

Modern Japanese Grammar

Print publication date:  October  2013
Online publication date:  March  2017

Print ISBN: 9780415571999
eBook ISBN: 9780203856628
Adobe ISBN: 9781135151393

10.4324/9780203856628.ch85

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Abstract

There are various ways to express your agreement or disagreement depending on how clearly or openly you want to express it. Since ‘disagreeing’ may be confrontational and potentially create an embarrassing moment, the speaker often expresses his/her disagreement in an indirect, mitigated manner.

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