Speaker: Sun YANG (Yangzhou University, China) （December 11, 2014）
Professor Yang presented data from over 500 Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) completed by native Japanese speakers and by Chinese and other learners of Japanese. While most native speakers use "-te" or "-te kudasai", learners use the more polite "-teitadakemasenka" though they express a sense of urgency in emergencies, resulting in imbalanced expressions.
In terms of discourse structure, most native speakers precede requests with expressions of apology ("sumimasen" "moshiwake arimasen"), whereas learners use expressions to draw the listener's attention ("ano" "～san"). DCT data collection is useful for understanding learners'awareness and acquisition of such expressions.
Around 30 lecturers, students and visitors attended the lecture and contributed to the discussion. (Ryuko TANIGUCHI)
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