Refusal Strategies Made by EFL Learners Based on Social Status and Gender Through Role-Plays  

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Ilmi, Miftahul ; MARGARETHA, SELVYA

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 13 : Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Ketiga Belas : Tingkat Internasional, Jakarta, 8-9 April 2015, page 377-381.
Topik: Refusal strategies; lexical dowgraders; EFL learners; social status; gender; role-plays; verbal reports
Fulltext: (377-381) Miftahul I., Selvya M. - Refusal Strategies . . . - 040415.pdf (98.46KB)

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This is study focuses on the refusal strategies made by EFL learners in different social status and gender through role-plays. As in different socities and situation, people speak and refuse differently, this study attempted to investigate the realization of refusal strategies on twelve Indonesian EFL learners in different kinds of social status and gender of the intelocutor. The data were obtained from role-plays in English with 4 different situations based on request as the eliciation act and also verbal-reports to corroborate the findings of refusals. There are two kinds of social status, i.e low and high and two different sets of gender, i.e male and female. The data, then, were classified into refusal taxonomy (Beebe et al, 1990) and lexical downgraders (Trosborg, 1995). The results showed that most respondents both male and female tend to apply indirect refusal strategies particulary the semantic formula of apology or gratitude or reason or explanation then followed by direct refusal strategies notably negative ability for higher and lower social status interlocutor. The result from lexical downgraders, in high social context, male and female respondents tend to use subjectivizers and dowtoners markers to soften their reasons and mitigate their alternative of the refusals. From the verbal reports, mostly respondents claimed that they pay more attention to social status than gender of the interlocutor.

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