A Comparative Study Of The Performance Of Refusal In Chinese And Japanese

Rejection is a language behavior which is opposite with the other's intention language behavior. Also a behavior of people feel embarrassed. It is because the act is likely to hurt each other's heart. It has important implications for the relationships between each other. Therefore, when people are rejecting to another, they have to take into account each other's age, status, and so on.With economic's development, transportation advances, different countries have different cultural contacts and exchanges between people with rapid intensification. In such an era, one of the most important ability is to understand those who had different cultures, different habits, and different values.Chinese and Japanese, as different countries, different ethnic groups, when the refusal will inevitably there are some similarities and differences. So between these two populations, is Chinese university students who are studing japanese.Then what's the difference between using a native language and a foreign language for rejecting. Learning a foreign language for people who want to achieve and use spoken language as good as the level of the people, to understand the country's culture is more important than to learn grammatical knowledgeThis paper is based on "meaning formula" and Brown & levison's politeness. It's the paper what researched for Chinese(who are learning Japanese)'s rejecting performance to friends, people who is older or younger than them.Form the survey we can know that:when they are using Japanese,most of them begin with"すみませんが..."(sorry...),"残念ですが..."(It is regret...).But when they are using the mother tongue, the don't use"对不起"(I'msorry...);"不好意思"(I'm sorry...). In fact, there are also other differences. These differences, not single people are now faced with different seniority, while age, status, gender differences also exist, it's important for the future's study,...