한국어 모어 화자와 베트남인 학습자의 거절 화행 전략 사용 비교 분석

Abstract

This study compared and analyzed the patterns of refusal speech acts among Korean Native Speakers(KNSs) and Vietnamese Korean Learners(VKLs) to suggest directions and implications in the teaching of Korean refusal speech acts to VKLs. Specifically, this study focused on the topic of colloquial speech in college life, and investigated the strategies used when refusing requests in the context of public/private relationships, close relationships, and social status between professors and students, friends, and seniors and juniors. The study group consisted of 30 KNSs and 30 VKLs. The study results found similarities in that both KNSs and VKLs, actively used indirect rather than direct strategies. However, there was a marked difference in the details of the refusal strategies of each group. This study is meaningful in that it used a Discourse Complete Test to conduct the comparative analysis of patterns in detail. Largely, this study suggests that differences in the observed patterns reflect the learners’ mother tongues. Therefore, the results of this study could present directions in teaching refusal speech acts in the future, taking into consideration the characteristic nature of VKLs.