As summarized in the preface of the book, Dr. Yoon’s research, the first of its kind in Korean linguistics, makes several important descriptive and theoretical contributions to general socio-pragmatic studies. For instance, Dr. Yoon discovered that Korean hedges, functioning as interactive strategies, are used more frequently in two-party than many-party conversations and more frequently in personal than impersonal topics. Her study also reveals that hedges are used as both positive and negative politeness strategies and that social situational factors are more influential in affecting hedge use than social structural factors such as gender, age, region, or occupation. – Ho-min Sohn
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Objectives
1.2 Research questions
1.3 Organization of the dissertation
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 The concept of hedge
2.2 Women’s use of hedges and powerless language
2.3 Linguistic politeness and hedges
2.4 Mitigation and hedges
2.5 The functions of hedges
2.6 Modality and hedges
2.7 Speech acts and hedges
2.8 Hedges as a negative politeness vs. hedges as a positive politeness
2.9 Korean sentence enders and discourse modality
CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY AND DATA
3.1 Data collection and methodology
3.2 Yoon’s data overview
3.3 Summary
CHAPTER 4 THE CLASSIFICATION AND FREQUENCY OF KOREAN
HEDGES IN SPOKEN DISCOURSE
4.1 Classification of Korean hedges in spoken discourse
4.2 Frequency of Korean hedges in spoken discourse
4.3 Summary
CHAPTER 5 SOCIOPRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF INTERACTIVE SENTENCE ENDERS
5.1 Sociopragmatic factor analysis
5.2 Summary of sociopragmatic analysis of seven ISEs
5.3 Re-examination of two major findings
5.4 Summary
CHAPTER 6 PRAGMALINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED HEDGES
6.1 Pragmalinguistic analysis of ISE -canha(yo)
6.2 Pragmalinguistic analysis of ISE -ketun(yo)
6.3 Summary
CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION
7.1 General remarks
7.2 Summary of findings
7.3 Pedagogical implications
7.4 Suggestions for future studies
BIBLIOGRAPHY
저자 : 윤연희Yeonhee Yoon
Yeonhee Yoon is Associate Professor of the Practice of Korean Language and Culture at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and faculty fellow at the Liu Institute of Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. in Korean Linguistics from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her research interests include Intercultural Pragmatics, Second Language Acqu... more