Adjustment of Japanese Learners of Chinese in Japanese-Chinese Contact Situations:

Focus on Meaning Negotiations with Native Japanese Speakers

Abstract

This study focused on meaning negotiation in Japanese-Chinese contact situations, and examined how Chinese native speakers of Japanese communicate successfully by actively engaging in adjustment from two aspects: form and content. According to the data, the Chinese learners of Japanese are slightly less active and inventive in their chosen adjustment than native speakers of Japanese, but they promote mutual understanding and increase the breadth and depth of the topics by using a variety of adjustment more frequently.