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A Pragmatic Analysis of kesiki in Levinson's GCI Theory

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2007, 23(), pp.159-179
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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Chun, Sung-ho. 2007. A Pragmatic Analysis of kesiki in Levinson's GCI Theory. Korean semantics 23. The present study aims at analysis of the Korean dialect discourse marker kesiki by Levinson's GCI (Generalized Conversational Implicature) theory. Many previous pragmatic analyses of kesiki were studied by Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory which does not allow GCI. However, by the weak point of Relevance Theory itself, in order to interpret the implicatures of kesiki, an addressee should consider all utterance situation and context, and given world in all situations where a speaker uses it. However it is contradictory to the pragmaticians' general idea in that interpreting an implicature is much easier than any abilities of humanbeings. In this paper, we should distinguish between GCI and PCI (Particularized Conversational Implicature) in analyzing the implicatures of kesiki by Levinson's theory. And I shall represent the analysis by GCI theory is more appropriate to explain the phenomena that the interpretation of kesiki is easy and correct between Korean dialect speakers. In this paper, we will discuss i) the status of kesiki in a Korean dialect, ii) the pragmatic analysis of kesiki in the Relevance Theory, and iii) the other one, contrasting to the former, in Levinson's GCI theory. According to them, moreover, I shall indicate validity and appropriateness of GCI theory.

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