영어 과업중심대화에서의 힘과 반대표현

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This paper examines the expressions of disagreement in task-based conversations between American English speakers of equal or unequal status. Kim (2017), based on the same data set, found that in both Korean and American groups, the [S-S] pairs produced more disagreements and used more strengthened expressions than the [T-S] pairs. Considering that the United States is an egalitarian culture (Hofstede, 1980), this study explores in more detail how power affects the way American speakers disagree with each other. The data consist of 20 English pairs interacting with each other while arranging a series of 15 pictures. Half of them were [T-S] pairs and the other half were [S-S] pairs. The results show that the most common form of disagreement was mitigated declaratives in both groups, followed by interrogatives. However, the [S-S] pairs preferred to use wh-questions, mostly to challenge the prior claim by the addressee whereas the [T-S] pairs were likely to use mitigating yes-no question repeats as an indirect way of disagreement. Also, the [S-S] pairs had a tendency to use strong expressions, such as no, wait, emphatic and attention-getting expressions whereas the [T-S] pairs used more mitigating or self-deprecating devices. These results suggest that American speakers are sensitive to the relationship with the interlocutors.

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