A Comparative Study of Korean Degree Adverbs in Spoken and Written Register

Jaeseob Lee

doi:10.19033/sks.2021.03.71.47

This study investigates meanings of Korean degree adverbs in spoken and written registers. With respect to frequency of degree adverbs, the corpus data shows that degree adverbs are used more frequently in spoken registers than written ones. Regarding the usage of occasional degree adverbs(i.e., hapax legomenons), it is predicted that degree adverbs in spoken registers will be used in broader sense than written ones. This quantitative analysis indicates that the usage and functions of degree adverbs are related with registers. The purpose of this study is to explore this prediction by investigating the types of modificand, prosody on each co-occurance. Overall, degree adverbs have its modificand types restrictive. And the polarity of semantic prosody tends not to be subordinate with semantic polarity of modificand itself. This tendency is much stronger in spoken registers than written registers. This suggests that in spoken registers, diversity of modificand types is lower than written registers, whereas diversity of semantic prosody is higher than written registers. These results are consistent with the idea that spoken language is strongly influenced by its context compared to written language.

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