한국어와 태국어의 거절화행 비교연구

Abstract

This paper examines the refusal strategies of Korean and Thai speakers. Different languages leading to different preferences for speech act behaviors in the situations. The ultimate goal for learners learning a second language lies in their effective communication. This communication ability becomes possible when both grammatical and linguistic knowledge as well as sociolinguistic and pragmatic linguistic abilities are acquired. One of these sociolinguistic and pragmatic skills is a speech act. Refusals are typically the second part of a pair of adjacent utterances and it require a high level of pragmatic competence to be performed successfully. Refusal is not to accept requests, suggestions and offers of interlocutors. We do not want to hurt people’s feelings by the refusal, so it is mainly related to being politeness. The purpose of this study is to help Korean learners of Thai and Thai learners of Korean as to compare refusal strategies of Korean and Thai, which have a great influence on interpersonal relations. Beebe’s analysis tool is one of the most popular for the study on refusal speech act. However, it is a tool based on English refusal speech act. For this study attempted to compare the strategies employed in refusing requests, invitations, suggestions and offers by Korean and Thai according to the taxonomy of refusals developed by Beebe et al.(1990). In this article, we have divided refusal speech act strategies of Korean and Thai into three categories: Direct refusal, Indirect refusal(reason, alternative, negative willingness, future acceptance, apology, promise, avoidance and principle) and additional . The contrast study on the refusal speech act of Korean and Thai can not only examine the linguistic characteristics of the two languages, but also the Korean learners of Thai and Thai learners of Korean learn more accurately about refusal speech act, it will help both language learning.