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Typological Classification and Felicity Conditions of Evaluative acts in Korean

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2013, 40(), pp.495-520
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Hyeyong Lee 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to explain evaluative speech act with its own felicity conditions and to suggest it should be categorized as an individual speech act in speech act system. Since the Evaluative speech acts had not been dealt with in classification of Searle(1976), it was regarded as one of the Assertive or Expressive. This study looks through authentic conversation examples and finds out unique characteristics of the Evaluative which are different from those of Assertive or Expressive. Differences between them are as followings. Firstly, Evaluative is related not only to a speaker's description of facts but to his psychological attitude about it, which is more crucial. Also, mentioned utterances in the Evaluative would be judged neither by the standards of truth or falsehood, nor by the speaker's belief in truth of proposition. The speaker of Evaluative expects hearer to accept his evaluative manner whereas the speaker of Expressive expects empathy. Overall, it seems that Evaluative has its own unique characteristics with its own felicity conditions and should be classified as a distinct category in the whole speech act system.

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