words...

[Robert Docter]

Thanks for bringing this up, Matthew. Peck's brief analysis of Japanese business communication made me question a lot of the reading and movie-watching I've done - not only Japanese but other foreign arts. Whenever giving primary or secondary sources to my students, I find the obvious tier I, II, and III words when planning a reading scaffold. But the simple use and timing of phrases, along with the pauses and tensions that don't make it into words, adds a whole other dimension.