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A pragmatic study on the behavior of less-burdened invite in the Korean and Japanese male university students

  • 日本硏究
  • 2015, (39), pp.115-133
  • Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Published : August 20, 2015

Choung, youngmi 1

1청주대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

A pragmatic study on the behavior of less-burdened invite in the Korean and Japanese male university students This study aims to analyze the conversation on the behavior of less-burdened invite, and find out their unique characteristics from the recordings of the casual conversation between the close friends of Korean and Japanese male university students. The study subjects were 11 recordings by each language, 4 hours 41 minutes 50 seconds for Korean and 5 hours 8 minutes 4 seconds for Japanese, in total. 24 times and 20 times of invites occurred during the conversations in Korean and Japanese subjects, respectively. Upon the analysis results of invite contents, Koreans showed tendency of invite on the same date of conversation without any burden compared to Japanese. In addition, both showed the tendencies of new things invites which had not been discussed without any burden, more remarkable in Korean language. From the review of invite behavior on discourse level, we found that Korean did not prefer introducing irrelevant topics of the invite during the conversation compared to Japanese. In case of negative response from the other party on the invite, Korean tried to introduce irrelevant topics as a strategy of discourse level so as to change it into the positive ones. On the other hand, Japanese suggested that they introduced irrelevant topics of invite in order to delay the speed of invite behavior process before setting the concrete dates and places after the acceptance of invite.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.