한국어 종결표현의 화행 기능과 한국어 모어 화자의 인식에 관한 연구

A study on the correlation between sentence ending expressions and their pragmatic functions

This study attempts to investigate the relationship between the pragmatic functions of Korean sentence-ending expressions and Korean speakers’ actual use of language based on their intuition and corpus analysis. For this purpose, this study analyzed the correlation between the sentence-ending expressions and the corpus, and compared the results with a survey of native speakers’ intuition. The results can be summarized in three respects. First, a variety of pragmatic functions were observed in a single expression in the language use patterns and the cognition of Korean native-speakers. Second, one to multiple relations were observed in a variety of sentence-ending expressions with a specific pragmatic function. Third, the Korean speakers’ choice of sentence- expressions were influenced by given situations. This means that Korean native speakers who are cognizant of pragmatic functions selectively use sentence expressions, leading to the correlation between sentence expressions and pragmatic functions. Lastly, some differences were found in responses about pragmatic functions such as ‘imperatives’, ‘recommendations’, and ‘request’ depending on the profession or age.