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On the Meaning of a Modal-conjunctive Adverb ‘Hagineun’

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2021, 73(), pp.83-116
  • DOI : 10.19033/sks.2021.09.73.83
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : August 11, 2021
  • Accepted : September 23, 2021
  • Published : September 30, 2021

Choi Yoonji 1

1인하대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to investigate the meaning of a modal-conjunctive adverb ‘Hagineun’ in detail considering its preceding and following contexts. The meaning of ‘Hagineun’ is closely related to the logic of expectation, a semantic category concerning whether a given state of affairs accords with the speaker’s original expectation or prediction or not. It is required for characterizing semantics of the adverb to take account of different aspects such as the semantic relation of the preceding and following sentences, ontology and epistemology of the sentence meaning, and the discourse type. When the S1 denotes a state of affairs, it represents a situation which does not accord with the speaker’s expectation and the S2 expresses his/her acception of the situation. In the case of the S1 denoting the speaker’s opinion, his/her own original claim is expressed in the S1 and then his/her admission of the opposing one is conveyed in the S2. In an integrated viewpoint, the speaker can be seen to express his/her original thoughts in the S1 and then change his/her mind to accept the opposite thoughts in the S2. The relevant meaning for the interpretation of ‘Hagineun’ may be conveyed either in a direct or indirect way. Besides, the speaker’s thoughts should be changed in the flow of the discourse, and the grounds for the acception showed in the S2 should be a part of the speaker’s internalized knowledge at the moment of utterance.

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