The Explanation of the Reason for Declining a Request in Chinese Learners of Japanese:

Through the Oral Discourse Completion Test

Abstract

In this study, I conducted a discourse completion test on 46 Chinese learners of Japanese about the reasons for declining requests and examined the contents of the reasons for declining based on the concept of personal territory (PT). The results showed that 81.4% of the respondents gave reasons outside the PT, while only 18.6% gave reasons inside the PT. In addition, as a way of declining the second request, some adjustments were made such as adding detailed explanations and repeating.