A Study of Processing Refusal Situation for Chinese Old People

DOI

10.2991/sohe-19.2019.32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Refusal Situation, Processing, Old People, Counterfactuality Theory

Abstract

The paper is to investigate the processing of five situations by old Chinese people. By using questionnaire and interview for five different situations, we found that there are different responses to process the refusal situations. The elder old people have the tendency to refuse in more diplomatic way,; while the relative young old people tend to refuse in a direct way. The findings are discussed in terms of counterfactuality theory, which might be beneficial for understanding pragmatic ability of old people.

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© 2019, 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  - Xinguo Li
AU  - Shouyuan Luo
AU  - Yaling Liu
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - A Study of Processing Refusal Situation for Chinese Old People
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Health and Education 2019 (SOHE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 197
EP  - 199
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sohe-19.2019.32
DO  - 10.2991/sohe-19.2019.32
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