Formulating ‘Tag Questions’ in Korean Conversation: Pseudo-tags Ci and Cianha as Interactional Resources

• 영문명: Formulating ‘Tag Questions’ in Korean Conversation: Pseudo-tags Ci and Cianha as Interactional Resources
• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: 김규현(Kyu-hyun Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제30권 4호, 59~98쪽, 전체 40쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.12.31

영문 초록

From a conversation-analytic perspective, this paper analyzes the “committal” suffixes ci and cianha used as “pseudo-tags” in Korean conversation, which render the utterance they mark a request for confirmation (RfC) formatted in the form of a polar declarative question. The focus is given to examining differences ci and cianha as constitutive of mutually related but distinct forms of RfC, particularly in terms of the ways in which the confirmable is formulated and intersubjective understanding is solicited and negotiated. It is proposed that the RfC formatted with the pseudo-tag ci indexes the speaker’s orientation towards having the recipient help him/her “raise commitment” to the factually ascertainable character of shared information. Its use organizes recipiency in such a way that the recipient’s confirmation is solicited collusively. The RfC formatted with cianha, by contrast, furnishes the speaker with a discursive resource for engaging the recipient in a negotiatory process, prodding him/her to raise his/her “momentarily latent” commitment. With the confirmable grounded in general/shared knowledge, the use of cianha has the import of organizing a range of “attendant activities”, such as appeasing, whining, rebuking, etc.

목차

1. INTRODUCTION

2. DATA AND METHODOLOGY

3. ANALYSIS

4. DISCUSSION

5. CONCLUSION

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키워드

Conversation Analysis Tag Questions Pseudo-Tags Sentence-Ending Suffixes Epistemic Requests for Confirmation