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Presentation 2026-03-06 16:50
A Comparative Study of Youth Slang and Refusal Expressions in Japanese, English, and Chinese
Saeko Kubo, Mao Kuwata, Takumi Okada, Hiromi Nakatani (USP) TL2025-54
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) This research paper provides a trilateral linguistic analysis of youth slang and refusal expressions across Japanese, English, and Chinese, aiming to bridge the gap in existing literature which typically only compares two of these languages at a time. We collected youth slang from 31 Japanese speakers, 15 English speakers, and 9 Chinese speakers in their 20s and classified the slang according to how they were constructed. We found that "abbreviation" and "revival" were the most dominant word-formation patterns. In a second part, we provided refusal scenes among young people from a TV series and asked native speakers for their responses. We sorted the interactions into categories of refusal type, finding, among other results, that slang is commonly used to mitigate tension associated with refusals directed at friends.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) youth slang / refusals expressions / positive politeness / trilateral contrastive analysis / word formation / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 125, no. 392, TL2025-54, pp. 67-72, March 2026.
Paper # TL2025-54 
Date of Issue 2026-02-26 (TL) 
ISSN Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee TL  
Conference Date 2026-03-05 - 2026-03-06 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Theme 1: ELF, Conversation Analysis, Multimodal Interaction, Intercultural Communication, Theme 2: Assistive Language tools, Generative AI, Knowledge, Concepts, Vocabulary and its Structure, Theme 3: Linguistic Landscape, Language Contact, Interpretation and Translation, Intercultural Dialogue, Language and Learning ∙ Language Learning. 
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Conference Code 2026-03-TL 
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Title (in English) A Comparative Study of Youth Slang and Refusal Expressions in Japanese, English, and Chinese 
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Keyword(1) youth slang  
Keyword(2) refusals expressions  
Keyword(3) positive politeness  
Keyword(4) trilateral contrastive analysis  
Keyword(5) word formation  
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1st Author's Name Saeko Kubo  
1st Author's Affiliation University of Shiga Prefecture (USP)
2nd Author's Name Mao Kuwata  
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Shiga Prefecture (USP)
3rd Author's Name Takumi Okada  
3rd Author's Affiliation University of Shiga Prefecture (USP)
4th Author's Name Hiromi Nakatani  
4th Author's Affiliation University of Shiga Prefecture (USP)
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Date Time 2026-03-06 16:50:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
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Paper # TL2025-54 
Volume (vol) vol.125 
Number (no) no.392 
Page pp.67-72 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2026-02-26 (TL) 

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