Question Tags in Korean Conversation: Displaying and Soliciting Empathy for Managing Delicate Action

• 영문명: Question Tags in Korean Conversation: Displaying and Soliciting Empathy for Managing Delicate Action
• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: Kyu-hyun Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제31권 4호, 149~173쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.12.31

영문 초록

From the perspective of conversation analysis, this study analyzes utterances formatted with a question tag constructed as the tag-type clause kuci, “Isn’t it?.” Based on an examination of naturally occurring talk-in-interaction, it is argued that question tags, though generally intended to be a recipiency-mobilizing resource, serve primarily as a resource for empathy display and are geared toward retroactively managing the various “delicate” actions that their host utterance implements. Formulated as post-predicate elements, their use indicates the speaker’s trust that the recipient will provide an affiliative response by sharing the empathic stance exhibited in their host utterance. The kuci-speaker’s orientation toward soliciting the recipient’s affiliative uptake is frequently reciprocated by the recipient, who registers the “delicate character” of the kuci-marked utterance’s action by producing variously “nuanced” responses, for example, in a way that is empathically other-attentive, obliquely affiliative, or mildly resistant.

목차

1. INTRODUCTION

2. PURSUING JOINT UNDERSTANDING AS A PRACTICE

3. MANAGING DELICATE ACTION

4. CONCLUSION

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키워드

conversation analysis Korean question tags tag questions pseudo-tags empathy delicate actions