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<Abstract> A study of demonstratives in rhetorical sentences -A contrastive analysis in Korean and Japanese- 　In this study, a rhetorical grammar device known as <the use of references> was taken into consideration that oriented around　rhetorical questions of the Korean and the Japanese language. When expressing rhetorical sentences, both countries had in common - the many uses of rhetorical references and [geu/so series] – but the following differences were found through a detailed analysis. One can analyze that the references included assessments of the narrator as the demonstrative pronouns that refer to objects or people often followed a context that expresses an independent assessment of the narrator. However, references referring to places are used as an expression of simple reference that puts the location of the narrator as a standard location and therefore not interpreted as being evaluated. Demonstrative adjectives, especially [i-reon, geu-reon, jeo-reon (konna, sonna, anna)] in Korean often uses a sentence structure of [(i-reon, geu-reon, jeo-reon) + noun + i/ga eo-di-seo-yo?]. Japanese often uses a noun phrase such as [(konna, sonna, anna) + adjective (substantial expression) + noun] to deliver the assessment of the narrator. There are fewer examples of rhetorical adverbs in both languages. In Korean, there are many expressions including [i-reo-ke] such as [ni-ga na-han-te eo-tteo-ke i-reol su i-seo?] while in Japanese, one cannot put it in a sentences structure, the rhetorical adverb itself contains the meanings of the evaluation, and therefore can read the evaluation of the speaker from the entire rhetorical sentence.

rhetorical sentence, rhetorical questions, demonstrative, rhetorical grammar devices, referentiality, valuation