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Comparison between Japan and Korea in response to spoken greeting as exhibition of a negative evaluation: Composing and interaction of adjacency pairs

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2017, (54), pp.17~30
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

Jieun Kim 1

1오사카부립대학

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ABSTRACT

This study examines how the informant responds to the greeting of speaker giving a displeasure, focusing on the interaction of the adjacency pairs. According to the analysis results, in the context of a negative evaluations, Japanese tended to respond to the spoken greeting of the other speaker even in the case of a weak displeasure scene and a strong displeasure scene. However, Koreans had a weaker tendency to respond to spoken greeting of the other speaker in comparison with Japanese. In addition, Japanese were not greatly influenced by the disparity of ages, or the closeness of the relationship and they tended to still respond to the other speaker's greeting regardless of these factors, but Koreans tended not to respond to greetings of the speaker in close relationship, and the tendency toward composing the adjacency pairs was largely influenced by the closeness of the relationship between the informant and the other speaker. Further, Koreans tend to exhibit negative evaluations to the elders by lowering the equivalence of interaction in adjacency pair. This is interpreted as a means of compensating an exhibition of negative evaluations, which is caused by the difficulty the informants have in exhibiting an explicit negative evaluation. Also, in the close relationship, both Japanese and Koreas tended to exhibit negative evaluations by lowering the equivalence of interaction in adjacency pair, but the tendency of Koreans was stronger than that of Japanese.

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