This study aimed at analyzing the aspects of refusal strategy and offering practical proposal on speech acts of refusal in Korean study by comparing and analyzing the speech acts of refusal between Korean native speakers and Chinese-speaking learners ...
This study aimed at analyzing the aspects of refusal strategy and offering practical proposal on speech acts of refusal in Korean study by comparing and analyzing the speech acts of refusal between Korean native speakers and Chinese-speaking learners of Korean.
The final aim of studying a foreign language is to communicate smoothly with its native speakers. If people do not understand the intentions correctly of each other and have some misunderstanding, it would have bad influences on the personal relationship. Therefore, it needs the grammar, the situation of dialogue and adequate language strategies for the fluent communication.
Although lots of things are required for the Korean learners who are studying the speech acts refusal, the substantial materials are most important. Accordingly, the results of comparison and analysis between the substantive conversation materials of Korean native speaker-oriented survey and the native language study materials of Korean learners`, should be put to practical use into the Korean textbooks or Korean-teaching classes.
The author inquires into the aspects of refusal strategic application and analyzes the refusal of speech acts presented in the Korean textbooks comparing with the speech acts of refusal between Korean native speakers and Chinese-speaking Korean learners. And, the author also offers the proposal that can be practically used at class based on the analyses.
Chapter 1 introduces the purpose and necessity of this study and examines previous research focused on refusal speech acts.
Chapter 2 examines the concept and character of refusal speech acts and divides the refusal speech acts into direct and indirect refusal strategy for the analysis of working survey.
Chapter 3 shows the method and subject of the survey. And it analyzes
that what kind of refusal strategies Korean native speakers and Chinese-speaking Korean learners use in different situations according to sexuality, social status and the degree of intimacy variables.
Chapter 4 inspects the problems of refusal strategies in Korean textbooks based on the refusal strategy analysis from Chapter 3.
Chapter 5 discusses the proposal of refusal speech acts teaching and presents the practical teaching proposal based on the analysis.
Finally, Chapter 6 reviews the research result and means the study that
it focused on the insufficient refusal speech acts of Chinese-speaking Korean learners . And this chapter clarifies the meaning of this paper which discusses the forward research direction of speech acts teaching, and presents the applicable proposal in practical Korean teaching.