영문초록
Min, Su jung. “A Study on Korean EFL Learners` Refusal Strategies with Implication for Interlanguage Pragmatics”. Modern Studies in English Language & Literature 57.1 (2013): 353-76. Among the speech acts we engage in daily, request is frequently used in conversation to fill the various needs and enhance interpersonal relationships. Refusals to requests are one of face-threatening acts because interlocutors` negative face can be threatened. In light of cross-cultural communication, therefore, even for the fluent EFL learners, the inappropriate use of refusals in some situations often results in interpersonal communication breakdown. Relying on the two means of data collection from 20 Korean EFL learners and 20 native English speakers, the study examined how the Korean EFL learners perform refusal speech act when they refuse to comply with requests and how their speech act of refusals differ from those of native speakers of Standard varieties of English. The results showed that unlike native English speakers, Korean EFL learners preferred direct strategies, particularly a modal form can`t, to perform the speech act of refusals in both addressee dominance and status equal contexts. Pedagogical implications were made for giving instructions on speech acts in English as a foreign language and helping the EFL learners develop pragmatic competence for successful communication. (Kongju National University)
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