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Comparative Study of Meta-communicative Expressions in Conflicts in Japanese and Korean

SASA HIROKO 1

1사이버한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

Meta-communicative expressions are words and phrases used to help express clearly what one is speaking, or to avoid causing a feeling ofdiscomfort in one’s listener. These expressions frequently appear when one attempts to supplement the information in advance of one’s speech or to make an adjustment for what one has just said. In this paper, I firstly pick out examples of ‘meta-language expressions used in conflicts’ from film and drama scenarios, and classify them according to three functions; i) management of communication process, ii) management of inter-personal relationship, and iii) consideration for norms in language life. The result shows that the use of meta-communicative expressions in conflict situations is more frequent in Japanese than in Korean. I will focus on why they are used so often in Japanese in future investigation.

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