1998 No.06
Comparative Textual Study on Newspaper Advice Columns in English and Japanese
UEDA, Teruko
1. Introduction
In everyday life, we ask for some ‘sort’ of advice from other people intentionally or unconsciously. Other people also give their advice to the would-be advice-seeker; this is done intentionally or unconsciously, or indirectly or directly. Exchanging advice, which is one of the speech acts (cf. Searle 1969) takes place at all times everywhere in our society.
Comparative Textual Study on Newspaper Advice Columns in English and Japanese - UEDA, Teruko