본문 바로가기
  • Home

A Study on Types of Defining Sentences in Science Text.

Kilim Nam 1

1경북대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to classify defining sentences in science textbooks and analyse them on the basis of their lexico-grammatical patterns as well as their roles in the text. Many studies have focused on the concepts of ‘defining strategy’ or ‘defining sentence types’ in lexicography. In addition, the use of defining strategies appears to be more important in science prose, when describing scientific terms, than in any other fields. While previous studies have examined definition in Korean dictionaries, only a few have looked into what grammatical characteristics the science textbooks present in terms of defining strategy and what role these various patterns play in defining scientific terms. This study is organized as follows. Chapter 2 deals with issues relating to the analysis of the defining sentences and presents the methodology and corpus construction. Chapter 3 classifies the Korean defining sentences by analysing the definition patterns of Korean dictionaries. Chapter 4 analyzes manually 200 defining sentences in Korean science textbooks and classifies them according to not only their lexico-grammatical patterns but also their functions.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.

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