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The 'engagement' aspect in the president’s public apology discourse: focused on the president's apology texts for the proactive and reactive crisis.

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2022, 76(), pp.165-200
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : April 30, 2022
  • Accepted : June 13, 2022
  • Published : June 30, 2022

Nahyung, KONG 1

1호남대학교 인문사회과학연구소

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to clarify the structural characteristics of the political apologies of former presidents YS, MB, GH, focusing on the ‘engagement' category of the appraisal theory(AT), and describe the discourse strategy according to the development of the text structure. Specifically, in this study, the apology was divided into PAT and RAT according to the type of crisis, and the structure of the apology according to the type was first examined. Next, I discussed the discourse strategic functions performed by various subcategories of it while examining the aspects of ‘engagement' revealed according to the structure. As a result, there were parts that were commonly revealed in terms of structure and ‘engagement', but parts that were revealed very differently depending on the type of crisis were also observed. This study is significant in that it attempted to grasp the interpersonal meaning embodied when language is used in the interrelationship that forms or maintains relationships with other people centered on linguistic resources in analyzing texts. It is also significant in that it has overcome the methodological bias of the existing text analysis discussion.

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