中国語母語話者の日本語依頼表現学習に関する語用論的研究

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This paper, which is based on Brown and Levinson’s (1978) politeness theory, analyzes the usage of requests by 90 undergraduate and graduate students who major in Japanese at Dalian University of Foreign Languages. The research participants were required to partake in three face-threatening scenarios with varying degrees of difficulty. The results reveal that in terms of basic state, as the difficulty of requests increases, the linguistic behaviors of both the third-year and fourth-year undergraduate students tend to be identical. In contrast, the graduate students demonstrated linguistic diversity, indicating a relatively higher level of Japanese proficiency compared to the undergraduate students. In terms of behavioral differences, there were significant differences among the third-year and fourth-year participants as well as the graduate students. More specifically, the third-year students showed no differences in high-level face-threatening scenarios, whereas fourth-year students displayed significant variation in this regard. Furthermore, graduate students with higher Japanese proficiency demonstrated differences in low-level face-threatening scenarios in which they made repeated requests to achieve communicative goals denoting an absence of formality amongst friends.

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