2004, Vol.15, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

pISSN : 1226-7198 / eISSN : 2734-0171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/semantics

Im, Chil-Seong. 2004. A Study on the Relationship Level of a Korean Discourses. Korean Semantics, 15. I study some characteristics of relationship level in Korean discourses in this paper. I defined the characteristics of relationship level, first. That is been classified by three; positive level, objective level and negative level. That changes gradually. There are sometimes relationship disagreements by communitive participants. That is represented in a indirect way. And, That has culturally meaning.I study some usage patterns of Korean discourses on the relationship level. I divided the patterns by two parts; language part and context part. In language part, I study some elements those represent relationship level on phonetic situation, vocabulary situation, and sentence situation. In vocabulary situation, I focus the usage the word, ‘we’ and ‘our’.In context part, I study some speakers strategies those express relationship between a speaker and an audience.

Lee, Chan-Kyu. 2004. System-based Approach to the Analysis of Meaning of Utterances. Korean Semantics, 15. The objective of this paper is to confirm the possibility of applying the System Theory and the Fuzzy Theory when analyzing the meanings of utterances in different levels of communication.Analysis of language meanings may be undertaken in various levels. While the analysis of meaning on pragmatic level enhances the accuracy of the analysis by presenting a framework of contextual situation, the analysis using the system improves the accuracy in interpreting the meaning since all elements of communication are considered as variables in analyzing the meaning. The systematic approach allows a much more sound and appropriate meaning analysis compared to the analysis simply based on the current contextual situation since the systematic approach coverage ranges from social and cultural contexts under which communication takes place to the meanings created between communicators or past communications. However, the participants in the communication process do not communicate by recognizing each of the system components, but they use part of the tools selectively in a fuzzy method. The main topics of this study are as follows; 1) The meaning of language consists of fuzzy characteristics from the communication point of view. 2) Communication process is influenced by the system. 3) Those that participate in the communication process select a set of fuzzy elements based on the intuition or random reasoning, which evolved within the system.

Chang Kyung-Hee, 2004, Types and Functions of Korean Referring Expressions. Korean Semantics, 15. This study is an attempt to classify referring expressions in Korean and to scrutinize their referential functions. First, referring expressions in Korean may be classified into three major categories: proper nouns, demonstratives, and common noun expressions comprising definite descriptions. Common noun expressions may be further classified based on the definiteness of their pre-head modifiers. Secondly, the Korean referring expressions typically refer to the properties, types, and locations of entities. Based on this fact, we sub-classified proper nouns, demonstratives, and common noun expressions into entity type referring expressions, entity property referring expressions, and entity location referring expressions. These three types of referring expressions may be characterized by means of their referential independence, referential accuracy, the size of their referents, the locational scope of reference, and the easiness of the referential act. Another perspective on the referring expressions, lastly, is the ways to strengthen their “referential capability”. In this perspective, definite descriptions are a strengthened form of common noun expressions.