‘I want to skip your class’

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Jee-Won Hahn
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제26권 제3호, 161~179쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.12.30

영문 초록

This study is motivated by the recent involvement of polite speech in ESL textbooks (ICON and Touchstone) and class instruction. Language textbooks published in America have begun to recognize the dimension of polite speech vs. plain speech influenced by research on cross-cultural pragmatics. In this study, requests are associated with politeness (Brown and Levinson 1987) since this behavior gives imposition on the hearer and is a face-threatening act. Politeness is one concern for the selection of requests among a variety of speech behavior. This study examines the act of requesting in order to investigate how a request is politely realized and 48 responses are collected. Learners are asked to make a request in formal relationship where power and social distance plays a role. 48 Responses are collected from the survey. Findings are consistent with previous studies on Korean interlanguage requests in that a request is likely to be an interrogative (Searle 1975). On the other hand, culture-specific features indicate politeness is also realized by means of other linguistic devices as well as sentence types. Furthermore, use of speaker-oriented categories is highlighted in relation with sources of miscommunication.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Review of previous studies

3. Data collection

4. Results: Request realizations in Korean English

5. Discussion and conclusion

References

키워드

politeness requests miscommunication inter-language Korean