Refusal Strategies Among Sundanese Students: An Analysis of Gender and Power Relation

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10.2991/assehr.k.200406.032How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender, power relation, refusal, Sundanese

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the contribution of power relations to the realization of refusal strategies done by Sundanese male and female students. This study employs a descriptive qualitative approach. The data used in the present study were gathered from a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) that was distributed to 4 male and 4 female respondents. The data were analyzed by using Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Welts’s (1990) classifications of refusal. The findings show that there is no substantial difference in terms of the strategies employed by both genders. It is also found that power relation influences the realization of refusal. This finding suggests that when the respondents refuse someone who is more powerful, they tend to prioritize the emotional feeling of the requester. Meanwhile, when the respondents refuse someone who is more powerless, they tend to prioritize things by using their logic

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rahmatillah Solihah
AU  - Ernie D.A. Imperiani
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/09
TI  - Refusal Strategies Among Sundanese Students: An Analysis of Gender and Power Relation
BT  - Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 160
EP  - 164
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200406.032
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200406.032
ID  - Solihah2020
ER  -