http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/iprg.2005.2.issue-1/iprg.2005.2.1.41/iprg.

2
005.2.1.41.xml

It is proposed that politeness
in Japanese is not motivated by the notions of positive and negative
face, but rather is grounded in the concept of place.(Haugh 42)
it has been argued that the core dimensions underlying
politeness in languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean and so
on di r from those outlined by Brown and Levinson(Haugh 43)