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The Selection of Topics and Politeness in the invitation conversation

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2014, (41), pp.149-163
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

Choung, youngmi 1

1청주대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study is to find out the relationship between the topic selection and politeness in Korean and Japanese conversation. Thesubjects were female undergraduates who took part in the invitation conversation.The results of the study are summarized as follows. (1) Both Korean and Japanese speakers tend to prioritize their active communication through being considerate of their partnersrather than aim to take part in the conversation. (2) When they select their topics, both Korean and Japanese speakers tend to talk about the subjects which they share each other.Therefore, these findings indicate that the mechanism of positive politeness strategies can be affected when female speakers, who arein close relationship, select their topics in the conversation. (3) When they introduce their topics, both Korean and Japanese speakers tend to develop new topics by mentioning parts of previouscontents on speech acts. These tendencies were more obvious in Japanese than Korean. Both Korean and Japanese speakers tend tointroduce topics by mentioning the contents of proposition by themselves rather than introduce new topics by requesting someinformation about their partners. As the results of this study show, the findings provide that the participants had a cooperative attitudein this conversation, thus this conversation had an effect on satisfying their partners’ positive face.

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