Korean Hedges in Spoken Discourse(양장본 HardCover)

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.

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

Yeonhee Yoon