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A study on correlation between pattern expressions and communicative functions

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2008, 26(), pp.21-46
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

HYOUN HWA KANG 1

1연세대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to construct a database which analyses a correlation between communicative functions and grammatical patterns for effective teaching of communicative functions. Based upon the case study about the ending forms including ‘-어야 하다/되다’, I conduct a corpus analysis to investigate sematic, syntactic and pragmatic characteristics of their expressions. Using a spoken corpus, I especially attempt to examine a correlation between pattern expressions appeared in daily conversations and communicative functions. Based upon spoken data analysis, the given pattern expressions seem to have a primary meaning of obligation and are connected with a variety of communication strategies that emphasize or euphemize a speaker's intention. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, grammar instruction can not be effectively carried out simply by teaching individual pattern expressions and artificial conversation depending on basic meaning. To solve this problem, various meaning functions appeared in real language performance are identified. Second, this study distinguishes varied patterns of the given expressions from related patterns and suggests a list of pattern expressions that are combined with other grammatical forms and subsequently have different meaning functions. Therefore, a differential instruction of them is desired. Third, a contrasitive study according to a learner's language can be systematically undertaken because individual pattern expressions are carefully examined based upon corpus. This kind of study can contribute to teaching pattern expressions according to spoken oriented communicative functions.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.