Refusal speech act response: differences between South Koreans and North Korean refugees in inducing speech acts and directness

The majority of previous studies on North Korean Refugees (NKRs) focused on the linguistic heterogeneity of pronunciation and vocabulary use. Only a handful of studies examined differences between South Koreans' (SKs) and NKRs' language use and they concluded that NKRs prefer direct refusa...

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Main Authors: Lee, Haiyoung (Author), Lee, Bolami (Author), Hee, Chung Chun (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2018-05.
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