Analysis of Shakoujirei in Japanese Refusal Situation

Authors

  • Raden Regine Melansyah

Keywords:

pragmatics, refusal, greetings, shakoujirei

Abstract

This study examines the use of shakoujirei in Japanese refusal situation. Shakoujirei in Japanese language means somewhat common for people to give complements that they don`t mean, and because it does not contain the real meaning, the meaning of the expression used as shakoujirei does not need to be considered too much. One of the expressions included in shakoujirei is aisatsu (greetings). When it comes to the word aisatsu (greetings), usually people will imagine the greetings that is used when meeting someone like ohayou gozaimasu, konnichiwa, or konbanwa. But not only that, greetings are an expression that has been fixed in certain situations and used as a form of etiquette or politeness towards the others. So, it has a function to establish a good relationship with others. There has been a lot of research on greetings used at meeting scene or farewell scene, and also there is a research about shakoujirei contained greetings in various situations but this research will focus on greetings which is used in refusal situation. Refusal situation has a high possibility of bringing negative impacts on the relationship between the interlocutors. So, this study was conducted to analyze greetings used in Japanese refusal situations with pragmatics and politeness strategies according to Brown and Levinson. This research used a descriptive method and collected data from Japanese drama entitled “Tonari no Kaibutsu kun” and “Watashi ga Renai dekinai Riyuu”. The results showed that Japanese native speakers tend to use shakoujirei to maintain good relations with the hearer, so there is no shakoujirei expressions found on any form of speech when the speakers have no intention of having a good relation with the hearer or with people who are really on good terms. Shakoujirei expressions that are most widely used are those expressions that is used to not to overwhelm the hearer, such as warui kedo, daijoubu, ii kara, etc. 

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Published

2021-08-16

How to Cite

Raden Regine Melansyah. (2021). Analysis of Shakoujirei in Japanese Refusal Situation. Proceeding of International Conference on Japanese Studies, Language and Education, 1(1), 186-194. Retrieved from https://www.proceedings.aspbji.id/index.php/icjsle/article/view/19

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Proceeding of International Conference on Japanese Studies, Language and Education (ICJSLE)

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