Amae directs attention to expectations of receptive dependence that can accompany a request or remain unstated within it. Doi’s interpretation and Miike’s communication reconstruction help distinguish inference from acceptance, while preserving clarification and refusal and avoiding diagnoses of attachment, dependency, or a uniform Japanese personality.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Concepts & Constructs
Delimits an entity, property, relation or condition relevant to understanding communication. Its principal contribution is to clarify what something means, which features constitute it, and how to recognize or distinguish it.