This study proposes an integrative framework for analysing Korean refusal speech acts along three dimensions: strategic orientation (controlling, avoidance, accommodating), discourse structure (pre-head act, head act, post-expansion), and reason-givin...
This study proposes an integrative framework for analysing Korean refusal speech acts along three dimensions: strategic orientation (controlling, avoidance, accommodating), discourse structure (pre-head act, head act, post-expansion), and reason-giving modalities. Drawing on Jeon’s typology, Oh’s three-stage model, and Tilly’s theory of reasons, it models how Korean speakers select refusal strategies and justify them in relation to power, distance, and imposition. The framework predicts typical pairings between strategies and reason types and offers a basis for corpus-based analyses and for pedagogical design in Korean as a foreign language, particularly in teaching refusal strategies linked to appropriate patterns of reason-giving.