A study on refusals!

1. Cem BALÇIKANLI Gazi University, Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department E-mail: [email_address] The 8th International Language, Literature and Stylistics Symposium İzmir University of Economics May, 2008 Are you deaf? I’ve said “No, No, No”

3. In order to achieve approximate native-speaker levels of pragmatic competence, learners need to acquire the rules of politeness of the target culture and to develop interaction skills, knowing who may or may not speak in certain settings, how they should talk to people of different statuses and roles, what nonverbal behaviors are appropriate for them to use in various contexts, what routines they should use for turn taking in conversation, and how to perform and comprehend speech acts such as requesting, apologizing or REFUSING ( Saville-Troike, 1996). Why speech acts?

12. SITUATIONS

22. REFUSAL OF INVITATION Situation 3: Refusing a lower status person’s invitation Situation 4: Refusing a higher status person’s invitation Situation 10: Refusing an equal status person’s invitation

28. REFUSAL OF SUGGESTION Situation 5: Refusing an equal status person’s suggestion Situation 6: Refusing a higher status person’s suggestion Situation 8: Refusing a lower status person’s suggestion

34. REFUSAL OF OFFER Situation 7: Refusing a lower status person Situation 9: Refusing an equal s tatus person Situation 11 : Refusing a higher status person