Comprehension and responses for in direct speech acts by native Chinese speakers leaning Japanese

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  • 中国人日本語学習者による間接発話行為の理解と対応
  • チュウゴクジン ニホンゴ ガクシュウシャ ニ ヨル カンセツ ハツワ コウイ ノ リカイ ト タイオウ

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This study aimed to examine responses for the three types of indirect speech acts: request, invitation and refusal. These speech acts were aurally presented to 98 native Chinese speakers leaning Japanese. All responses were recorded to analyze their response appropriateness. The processing model for understanding and responding to the indirect speech acts was assumed to consist of the three stages based on Grice (1975) and Searle (1975): namely, (1) understanding literal meanings, (2) comprehending the indirectly-expressed intentions, and (3) responding by grammatically/semantically-correct appropriate expressions. According to this model, responses by Chinese participants were evaluated in four steps: (1) understandable expressions, (2) semantically/grammatically correct direct response that lack indirect intension underntanding (3) semantically/grammatically incorrect expressions with underntanding indirect intentions, and (4) appropriate expressions. The results indicated that approximately 60% of responses were correct as classified in step 4. A decision tree analysis indicated that responding patterns differed in the four evaluations across the three indirect speech acts, and displayed the order of accuracy, refusal<request<invitation. This study of the response patterns supports the literal first model (Grice, 1975; Searle, 1975) that the intended meanings were understood by the inference for indirect intentions after understanding literal meanings.

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  • ことばの科学

    ことばの科学 33 35-54, 2019-12-25

    名古屋大学言語文化研究会

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