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Miscommunication and Misunderstanding in Marital Conversations from the Perspectives of Face and Rights

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2014, 43(), pp.133-158
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Sungbom Lee 1 Seung-Hoon Han 2

1서강대학교
2고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to examine the pragma-linguistic aspects of miscommunication and misunderstandings that occur in conversations between married couples in Korea. An attention is paid to six different types of conversations, depending on the interlocutors’ intentional cooperation and rapport-management orientation. A special focus is laid not just on the concern for their ‘face’ but also on their perception of sociality rights — a key notion proposed by Spencer -Oatey (2000, 2005) in accounting for (dis)harmony and (un) smoothness in verbal communication. We apply these theoretical notions and principles to a set of real, natural conversation data that represent each type of marital conversations. Finally, the results of our analysis are discussed in comparison with Jeon’s (2009, 2011) analyses of speech acts of refusals and disagreement.

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