2016, Vol.52, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

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

The purpose of this study is to reveal the characteristics of the infectious disease news, further to establish a frame of epidemic diseases news through the analysis of vocabulary epidemic and related words. To this end, We have analyzed the vocabulary of KBS 9 o’clock News statistically from 2001 to 2015. And studied around the swine flu {Sinjongpeullu} and MERS {Mereuseu}. The results were as follows: First, {Sinjongpeullu/Mereuseu} news, there are differences in the appearance aspects related terms as compared to the cancer {Am} or the flu {Dokgam}. Second, we present three frames in the {Sinjongpeullu/Mereuseu} news: the control frame for preventing the spread of infectious diseases, national disaster frame emphasized the risk of epidemics frame, economic crisis frame is focused on the impact the epidemic on the economy. Third, the political and economic areas related terms have increased significantly in the MERS news than swine flu news. This shows that intervention of governmental agencies is even greater in the MERS time than the swine flu. Also it means that the more important to recognize the economic crisis caused by infectious diseases than in the past. The study presents what the focus of the news when an epidemic occurs, the revealed target to recognize what our society is important.

This study aims to reveal pragmatic property of plural expressions in Korean on the basis of semantic plurality. Korean plural expression such as tul, ney have studied mostly on their semantic plurality. However, interesting phenomena are observed. That is, Korean plural expressions serve as pragmatic markers which present honorific, modesty and non-formality, even without plural reading in certain cases. To figure out the reason of this, I clarify plural meaning and pragmatic property of tul, ney, ttawi. Besides, it is considered that they are systematically co-related. Thus I suggested plurality-informality system schematically.

The purpose of this study was to reconsider both grammaticality and pragmatics of interrogative ending in spoken language. We analyzed the intonation of 35 women’s spontaneous speech with a length of 300minutes and drew the following conclusions freom the analysis. First, Most endings that realized interrogative sentence in spoken language were found evenly in declarative sentence and interrogative sentence and showed difference only in functions and degree of meaning. Second, intonation had lower extent of contribution as the functional strength of interrogative sentence was higher. By contrast, intonation had higher extent of contribution as the functional strength of interrogative sentence was lower. Grammaticality and pragmatics were inter-complementary. Third, intonation was combined with morphological elements and involved in pragmatic functions. Non-assertive endings were combined with ‘L:’, ‘LH’, and ‘LHL’ to be used in soft and polite expressions. Confirmative and assertive endings were combined with ‘H’, ‘HL:’, and ‘LHL’ to be used in assertive expressions. Fourth, As the higher, use of flexible intonation and forms revealing confidence was more common, and furthermore, politeness strategy based on prosody elements was used more commonly.