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Jiae Kim & Youngjun Lee. 2015. “A Study of Instructional Design in Teaching Korean Speaking Based on the Cognitive Apprenticeship Theory: focused on the intermediate Korean language learner for academic purpose”. Korean Semantics, 48. This article aims at developing teaching method of Korean speaking for academic purpose. For the successful performance of academic work Korean learners need communicative competence as well as creative and logical thinking skills. This emphasize the adoption of the cognitive apprenticeship theory in the curriculum. Process-based instruction and mutual cooperation establish the foundation of this theory. In this education could be included such methods as modelling, coaching, scaffolding, and fading. The special course based on these methods was developed and had considerable effect on constructing discourse. First of all, foreign learners acquired the ability to plan a strategy leading to speaking logically. The teacher’s coaching and interaction between peers made easy to create new ideas and organize frame for logical text.

Yi, Miji. 2015. Study on the meaning and use of ‘-kumeon/ -kuman’. Korean Semantics, 48. ‘-kumeon' and ‘-kuman' are exclamatory sentence endings in Korean language. Usually exclamatory sentence endings share similar meanings and contexts so there have been many studies which aimed to distinguish the meanings and use of the exclamatory endings. However, ‘-kumeon' and ‘-kuman' are considered to have distinguishing characteristics in the relationship of speaker and listener and to show low frequency of use compared to other exclamatory endings, and also ‘-kuman' is usually treated as a wrong variation of ‘-kumeon', so their meanings and functions have received little attention from the researchers so far. However, this study noted that ‘-kuman' is widely used in the spoken language and it shows distinctive features from ‘-kumeon' in meaning and use. Therefore, this study analysed the usage of ‘-kumeon' and ‘-kuman' utilizing the corpus of spoken Korean language and tried to identify the meanings and use of them. The following are main findings from the corpus analysis. Firstly, ‘-kumeon' and ‘-kuman' share the same meaning which is ‘perception or realization of a new fact' but ‘-kuman' is more widely used in the spoken language. Secondly, ‘-kuman' is usually used among young people while ‘-kumeon' is used among older people. Lastly, ‘-kuman' has an additional meaning which is ‘contrast' and in this case ‘-kuman' is used to express a contrast of preceding clause and following clause or to show speaker's contrary view against the listener's.

Doh, Jae Hak. 2015. On the differences among periphrastic constructions that denote a progressive aspect in Korean. Korean Semantics, 48. This paper aims to search periphrastic constructions that denote a progressive aspect in Korean and to investigate the properties and differences of these constructions; ①[Verb-고 있-(Pre)FinalEnding], ②[V-고 계시-(P)FE], ③[V-고 앉았-(P)FE], ④[V-고 자빠졌-(P)FE] and ⑤[V-는 중이-(P)FE]. From the point of view of Construction Grammar, internal and external characteristics of these constructions are analyzed. Then the meanings of constituents of each construction are considered as internal characteristics. And Aktionsart(lexical aspect) of preceding verb and grammatical properties such as addressee honorific and sentence type of following ending are considered as external characteristics. Finally, these are visualized by way of semantic map. In summary, ①[V-고 있-(P)FE] is unmarked construction that covers the most wide functional domains. ②[V-고 계시-(P)FE] has a restriction on [-respect] addressee honorific style such as Hage style, Haera style and Hae style in proposative sentence, and is incompatible with Haera style in imperative sentence. ③[V-고 앉았-(P)FE], ④[V-고 자빠졌-(P)FE] and ⑤[V-는 중이-(P)FE] are not able to co-occur with proposative sentence and imperative sentence without reference to any addressee honorific.

Chen, Kuan Chao. 2015. The discourse pragmatical functions of Korean evidentials - focused on private speech usage. Korean Semantics, 48. The aim of this paper is to investigate the Korean evidentials and explore through the evidentials how speakers express the features of their communicational intention in their private speech. During the process of using evidentials, Korean speakers not simply express the information source, but also convey a variety of pragmatic functions. The pragmatic functions are frequently found in the phenomenon of private speeches. This research explores these features by Korea drama corpus, and finds that private speeches are not speaker’s meaningless murmurs but private speeches are related to different aspects such as speaker’s cognitive function and factors of discourse contexts. Based on whether there are hearers or not, the thesis firstly divides private speeches into communicational and non-communicational, and then investigate the various features of private speeches from the aspects of 'attribute of information', 'speaker’s emotions', and 'topic of dialogues'. Above all, due to the meaning of evidentials, private speeches are found to indicate the pragmatic functions of binary opposition. In the communicational private speeches, the attribute of information can be divided into the request for information and the provision of evidence and speaker’s emotions can be classified into outlet for the emotions and empathy of the emotions. The topic of dialogues includes introducing a new topic and changing a topic. In the non-communicational private speeches, the attribute of information can be classified into memory recall and self-persuasion, and speaker’s emotions also can be divided into outlet for the emotions and empathy of the emotions.

Hyunjin Kim. 2015. A Study of the Repeated Expressions in the discourses of the beginning, intermediate, advanced Korean Learners: focusing on the interviews with the korean native speakers. Korean Semantics, 48. The main purpose of this study is to explore the functions of repetition in discourse with the korean native speakers according to all levels of korean learners. The analysis revealed (i) that the lexical repetitions appeared the most frequently at all levels. (ii) As korean learners' language proficiency had improved, the phrasal, sentence repetitions were used more often. In order to compare the functions of repetition at all levels, self-initiated, other-initiated repetitions were divided and examined. The results showed that (i) repair, time dragging, emphasis, contrast, topic-maintenance were in the self-initiated repetitions. (ii) Time dragging was used the most frequently at the beginning level, emphasis was at the intermediate, advanced levels. (iii) Agreement, confirmation, topic-maintenance, disagreement were in the other-initiated repetitions. (iv) The function of agreement was found the most frequently at all levels.

Oh, Choong Yeun. 2015. The Restriction of Topic's Relativization and Structuring Theme. Korean Semantics, 48. It has been claimed that NP, the head of relative clause is derived from the topic of the clause in Korean and Japanese. In this paper, it is argued that the NP is not a pragmatic topic. Only the topic derived from the assigned case in the clause can be relativized. The first subject of double subjective clause in Korean become the topic of the sentence, while it is not assigned theta-role by the verb, but a pragmatic topic(PT) of level of coversation is not eligible for relativization. The first subject as a topic in double subjective clause is checked the abstract determiner by predicative system of other constituents in a hole sentence, because the determiner is defined by predicative system in Korean sentence. PT is not defined by construction of the clause.:It is a constituent of pragmatic context. In this article, topic with a syntactic property is argued as one of the 'Theme', while PT cannot be Theme.

Kim Kwang Soon. 2015. The aspect of extension and use of kinship terms of address-in the center of {hyeong}, {nuna}, {oppa}, {unni}. Korean Semantics, 48. This study on the characteristics of the aspect that {hyeong}, {oppa}, {nuna}, and {unni} included in kinship terms in Korea are extended to and used as the terms to address people in a non-kinship group. Kinship terms are lexeme selected and used based on [blood relations]. However they are also used in subjects to [-blood relations] in modern language life. This means that Korean language users don’t recognize these lexeme in the center of [blood relations] in their cognitive structure and other particular characteristic plays an important role in the extension and use of these lexeme. This particular characteristic is the attribute that makes it possible to use {hyeong}, {oppa}, {nuna}, and {unni} used in kinship group naturally in non-kinship group and the primary purpose of this thesis is to identify this particular characteristic. Based on this, the secondary purpose of this is to identify the aspect of each lexeme being extended and used individually and to constitute the semantic network that makes it possible to arrange the attribute that is involved and identify the aspect of the extension and use of {hyeong}, {oppa}, {nuna}, and {unni}. It is to identify what the most important characteristics that Korean language users recognize are and what kind of characteristics make it possible to use these naturally, when kinship terms are used in a non-kinship group through the confirmation of the use of {hyeong}, {oppa}, {nuna}, and {unni} that are arranged like this.