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Referential and Emphatic Functions of Demonstratives in the Poetry of Shin Dong-yeop

김흥수 1

1국민대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper aims at studying the definite referential and emphatic functions of demonstratives in the poems of Shin Dong-yeop, particularly the transfer of referential functions to emphatic functions. Methodologically based on pragmatics and discourse ·text analysis, special attention is directed to poetic context and the intentions of poetic narrators. Major points are as follows: Demonstratives’ definite referential functions become more subjectified and specialized in Shin’s poems than in ordinary language. Their emphatic functions also become active to the effect of generating impressive literary impact. Referential functions come out as situational deixis and anaphoric reference, and situational deixis appear as textual situation and narrator situation deixis. The more redundant the contextual definiteness becomes, the greater referential emphasis the anaphoric reference is accompanied with. Contextual types, in which the referential functions transfer to emphatic functions, comprise adjacent pro-forms and repetitive expressions, relative clauses, cleft constructions, unspecific temporal words, and universal quantifiers. In contexts in which nouns or modifiers follow demonstratives, 【Abstracts】 36 제47집(2009. 8. 30) connotative meaning or content emphasizing functions become dominant.

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