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- OCHI Kimiko
- 松山大学
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- SUZUKI Mitsuyo
- 東京女子医科大学
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- Other Title
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- コミュニケーション能力の向上のために : 映画に学ぶ「断り」のストラテジー
- コミュニケーション ノウリョク ノ コウジョウ ノ タメニ : エイガ ニ マナブ 「 コトワリ 」 ノ ストラテジー
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Abstract
In any social interaction, participants risk losing face. In particular, refusing a friend's request or kind invitation can represent a major face-threatening act and hurt the addressee's feelings. Refusals usually include a series of semantic formulas. When responding negatively to an invitation to a family party, for instance, we would say, "I'd love to, but I havesome work to do. Maybe some other time." Thus, a positive statement is followed by the reason and an alternative. The negotiation will be longer and more elaborate depending on the social factors and what the speaker is going to refuse. Indirect speech acts are often preferred and adjuncts are added in order to redress the face-threatening behavior. This paper first discusses how Japanese learners of English refuse a request and an offer. Some of the distinctive features are (1) adjuncts are less frequently used, (2) the reasons are ambiguous, and (3) an expression of apology appears too often. The refusal scenes from films and dramas are then observed and analyzed in terms of social factors and semantic formulas, and compared with data from the Japanese learners. Finally, effective refusal strategies are introduced in classroom practice.
Journal
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- Teaching English through movies : ATEM journal
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Teaching English through movies : ATEM journal 18 (0), 137-150, 2013
The Association for Teaching English through Movies
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390001206112134528
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- NII Article ID
- 110009604518
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- NII Book ID
- AA11970172
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- ISSN
- 24331929
- 13429914
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- NDL BIB ID
- 028411474
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed