영어 학술논문에 나타난 just의 분포와 기능

• 영문명: The Distribution and Functions of Just in a Corpus of Academic Research Articles
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: 박혜선
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』제29권 2호, 39~59쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.05.31

영문 초록

This study examines the distribution and functions of the polysemous adverb just in academic written English, focusing on disciplinary variation and the interaction with the writer’s English competence. A corpus consisting of research articles published in both overseas and domestic journals was compiled from three disciplines: English literature, applied linguistics, and science and engineering. The meaning categories of just were classified into six groups: exclusive focus markers, particularizers (specificatory, comparative, exact), diminishers, and emphasizers. The analysis of the corpus showed that the frequency of just was very low compared to spoken academic English. Among the three disciplines, literature articles contained the highest tokens of just, converging to the observation that the writing style of this field is rather informal. Each discipline had its own preference regarding the meaning categories and collocational patterns, reflecting the characteristics of the discipline. Non-native writers differed from their native counterparts in their use of just in accordance with discipline-specific patterns. Overall, the use of just is shown to be influenced by various factors, such as text type, discipline-specific writing style, and the writer’s English competence. Future research comparing the functions of just and similar adverbs (e.g. only, merely) is expected to provide a more comprehensive picture of the behavior of this small word.

목차

1. 서론

2. 선행연구

3. 연구방법: 코퍼스 분석

4. 결과 및 논의

5. 결론

참고 문헌

키워드

just academic written language corpus multi-functionality