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On the Characteristics of Discourse and Pragmatics in the prose of Dong-yeop Shin - Focused on the phenomena related to grammar -

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2011, 36(), pp.119-148
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

김흥수 1

1국민대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to examine the aspects: how some phenomena of discourse and pragmatics, markedly used, in the prose of Dong-yeop Shin embody the expressive/stylistic functions. Thus, the nominal expressions and TAM (tense, aspect, modality) as syntactic and semantic phenomena in the level of sentence grammar, and the deictic expressions and speech acts as pragmatic phenomena are discussed in this paper. The main argument is as follows: The nominal expressions, usually in the forms of nominalization or noun phrase, are used to strengthen, magnify, concentrate and sum up the main contents of the prose. The TAM expressions as ‘­었었­’,‘­었더­’,‘­은가’,‘­을까’,‘것이다’, etc, shift of TAM carry out the functions of subjectivization in recognition and expression, mental distance, positive or negative implication, introduction of problems and idea development through questioning, emphasis through affirmation, and transition of the speaker’s attitude. The deictic expressions, mainly including‘이, 그’ perform the emphatic functions in terms of anaphora, cognition and expression―especially definite reference and emphasis on connotation. Meanwhile, the selection of ‘이’and ‘그’reflects the speaker’s cognitive and emotional attitude or distance. In the speech act expressions, the indirect speech acts are preferred being based on self-questioning, rhetorical question and the deontic expression‘­어야 하다’. In contrast, the direct speech acts of question, command and hortation are used chiefly in strong persuasion and demand because they are markedly shown in the discourse.

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