Complaint Discourse Features in Modality Forms: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Indonesian Internet Review

• Published in: Japanedu Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 64 - 76
• Main Author: Rustandi, Andhini Pratami Putri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 25.12.2022
• Subjects: complaint discourse; consideration; event feasibility; explicit complaint; implicit complaint modality; subject

This paper describes a comparative study of complaint discourse in Japanese and Indonesian focusing on modality expression. 500 items of each language were collected from TripAdvisor and usage of modality were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed. As a result, modality forms have often been rep...