Audience-blind sentence-enders in Korean: A discourse-pragmatic perspective

Rhee, Seongha; Koo, Hyun Jung

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2017.09.002

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“…The feature remains only in poetic and liturgical usage. It is used with the overtone of affection between spouses, but it is also used in completely neutral contexts, i.e., 'audience-blind' contexts Rhee 2013a, Rhee andKoo 2017), such as textbooks and newspaper articles. However, the self-same form can be provocative when used between people who are not spouses 11 .…”

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Politeness Pressure on Grammar: The Case of First and Second Person Pronouns and Address Terms in Korean

Rhee

2019

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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Grammar is constantly emergent as an aggregate whole of discourse tendencies that are present in language use between interlocutors, hence the notion 'emergent grammar' (Hopper 1987). These tendencies are formed by diverse discursive needs, including the need to signal politeness, which is assumed to be universal (Brown and Levinson 1987). This need is particularly important in Korean, in which politeness is highly grammaticalized, i.e., the politeness marking is not only a pragmatic but grammatical issue. The two areas where the speaker's decision is most clearly visible are the choice of sentenceenders, modulated up to six levels, and the choice of personal reference, e.g., pronouns and address terms. This study is a diachronic investigation of the personal reference system in Korean, exploring the effect of pressure of politeness. Despite the high level of grammaticalization of politeness marking, the personal reference system is a highly unstable paradigm, i.e., it has not undergone a high level of 'paradigmaticization' (Lehmann 1995(Lehmann [1982). Since personal reference terms are highly variable, the speakers often avoid using them for fear of the addressee perceiving that the choice is of insufficient honorification or that the very act of using reference terms is impolite when they could be omitted. Furthermore, personal reference terms with the [+Honorific] feature constantly deteriorate through frequent use. Therefore, a look into Korean reference terms shows that [+Honorific] terms are constantly innovated to upgrade the diminishing honorification effect and the first-person reference terms are constantly innovated to strengthen the [+Humiliative] meaning. АннотацияГрамматика постоянно развивается под влиянием дискурсивных тенденций, проявляющихся в использовании языка, что отразилось в понятии «эмерджентная грамматика» 'emergent grammar' (Hopper 1987). Данный процесс обусловлен различными дискурсивными потребностями, включающими, в том числе, и необходимость сигнализировать о вежливости, которая считается универсальной категорией (Brown and Levinson 1987). Эта потребность особенно важна в корейском языке, где вежливость грамматикализирована, то есть маркировка вежливости получает не только прагматическое, но и грамматическое оформление. В корейском языке отношение говорящего к собеседнику наиболее четко проявляется: (1) при выборе завершающей предложение частицы, сигнализирующей о степени вежливости (из шести возможных уровней), и (2) выборе формы номинации, например, местоимения и формы обращения. В данной статье представлены результаты диахронического исследования системы форм номинаций в корейском языке, изучающего влияние вежливости на грамматику. Несмотря на высокий уровень грамматикализации маркеров вежливости, система номинаций является крайне нестабильной парадигмой, то есть она не подверглась высокому уровню «парадигматизации» (Lehmann 1995(Lehmann [1982). Поскольку корейские формы обращения разнообразны и строго дифференцированы, говорящий нередко избегает их использования, опасаясь, что...

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Section: Intra-systemic Fluctuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politeness Pressure on Grammar: The Case of First and Second Person Pronouns and Address Terms in Korean

Rhee

2019

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“What Does Hyung Mean Please?”: Moments of Teaching and Learning About Korean (Im)politeness on an Online Streaming Platform of Korean TV Drama

Locher,

Messerli

2024

Exploring Korean Politeness Across Online and Offline Interactions

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In this paper we combine an interest in the pragmatics of fiction with interpersonal pragmatics by exploring how Korean (im)politeness norms surface and are negotiated in fictional TV drama. Our data is derived from the streaming platform Viki.com, which allows viewers to comment on the episodes they stream. Building on previous work by (Locher, Journal of Pragmatics 170:139–155, 2020), we first report on the pervasive occurrence of scenes containing ‘moments of relational work’ in Korean TV drama and then explore how viewers comment on this very relational work. While our quantitative results show that viewers do indeed pick up on (im)politeness negotiations (in linguistic and embodied, multimodal form), this finding is relativized by the many other functions that the comments also have. Nevertheless, we are able to show question–answer sequences about relational work and identity ‘moments of teaching and learning’ about Korean (im)politeness in this online fan community.

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Translating the other: Communal TV watching of Korean TV drama

Locher

Messerli

2020

Journal of Pragmatics

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Audience-blind sentence-enders in Korean: A discourse-pragmatic perspective

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Politeness Pressure on Grammar: The Case of First and Second Person Pronouns and Address Terms in Korean

Politeness Pressure on Grammar: The Case of First and Second Person Pronouns and Address Terms in Korean

“What Does Hyung Mean Please?”: Moments of Teaching and Learning About Korean (Im)politeness on an Online Streaming Platform of Korean TV Drama

Translating the other: Communal TV watching of Korean TV drama

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