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A comparative study on cognition of doublespeak between Korean and American

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2011, 35(), pp.215-243
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Lee, Chan Kyu 1 Yi Yumi 1

1중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to make comparison the category of doublespeak and to compare the perception of doublespeak between Korean and American. With the aim of comparing the perception of doublespeak between Korean and American, this study used a questionnaire survey, which was conducted targeting a Korean and American twice. The first survey was on awareness of doublespeak, and the second one on perception of doublespeak. The first is preliminary survey for the second survey. The perception aspects of Korean’ & American’ doublespeak confirmed through the second survey result are as follows. First, Both the Korean and American were found to be influenced much by the interpretation of a person around them in case they didn't accurately grasp the meaning of doublespeak. Second, However in case of a Korean, he/she tended to be influenced much by a person around him/her in case he/she accepted its meaning negatively though he/she knew the meaning of a word clearly. Third, In case of accepting the meaning of doublespeak negatively, the Korean was influenced much by a person around him/her while the American had a high tendency to think that the interpretation of a person around him/her distorted the intention of the first speaker. Fourth, Media had an influence on the interpretation of Korean’ & American’ doublespeak. Fifth, In case both people perceived the doublespeak positively, both the Korean and American were more influenced by the interpretation exposed through the press than a person around them. Last, In case both perceived the double utterance negatively, the Korean and American were more influenced by the interpretation of a person around them than the interpretation exposed through the press.

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