2015, Vol.50, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

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

Lee, Dong-hyeok. 2015. The conversational function of ‘-eodo doida’. Korean Semantics, 50. The aim of this article is to deal with the three properties of ‘-eodo doida’. (i) An utterance including ‘-eodo doida’ which means to permit constitutes adjacency pairs with an utterance of the request for permission. (ii) The speaker who has a higher deontic status than a hearer within conversation can utter with ‘-eodo doida’. In general the speaker who has a higher institutional status also has both a higher deontic status and a higher epistemic status than the hearer. However, an epistemic status could be adjusted during conversation, which affects who has a higher deontic status. (iii) The speaker who recognizes the hearer’s state allows the hearer to act what (s)he wants to do with using ‘-eodo doida’. The speaker can strengthen a social bond with the hearer by using ‘-eodo doida’. However, the speaker may experience a kind of loss by using assertive ‘-eodo doida’. The speaker can migrate the responsibility of the speaker while using the expressions next to ‘-eodo doida’.

Yim Chae-Hun. 2015. On representation mechanisms for ‘expatiation’ in Korean - focused on ‘-ji anko(-지 않고)’ clauses. Korean Semantics, 50. In this paper, we studied about representation mechanisms for 'expatiation' in Korean. We explored the following problems in the progress. First, what are the semantic criteria to distinguish representations of 'expatiation'? Second, how should the content be organized when we intend to expatiate? For resolving these problems, we investigated targeting '-ji anko(-지 않고)' clauses that are expatiated on main clauses. As a result, we found that the contents that antedate ‘-ji anko(-지 않고)' is 'common ground', namely 'the pragmatic presupposition'. Through this, we found that 'the pragmatic presupposition' be selected as the contents when we intend to expatiate.

Yugyeong Park. 2015. The usage of the Korean conditional connective ‘-tamyen’. Korean Semantics, 50. This paper aims to examine the conditional connective –tamyen ‘if’ by comparing with another conditional connective –myen. I show that a tamyen-clause morphologically includes hypothetical meaning, and so it can only be used in conditionals involving a temporary context update. Since generic, temporal, and deictic conditionals do not involve a supposition in their interpretations, -tamyen is not permitted in those conditionals. By contrast, a myen-clause can be used either in a hypothetical conditional or in a non-hypothetical conditional in which the if-clause functions as a simple domain restrictor. I also suggest that -tamyen can be used in anaphoric conditionals, a new type of conditionals, when there’s a need to explicitly express that the speaker’s public belief has been updated with the previous utterance. I further claim that the suppositional meaning of tamyen-clauses is due to the meaning of the declarative -ta. Formally, -ta expresses that its proposition is updated to the speaker’s public belief. By embedding the declarative marked phrase under the conditional, the antecedent clause of tamyen-conditional conveys the implied message that the speaker’s public belief is temporarily updated with the proposition of the antecedent clause. As a result, the tamyen-clause can convey the message that the speaker is assuming its proposition.