한국어 발화에서의 불손 실현

A study on the realization of impoliteness in Korean speech act: Brown and Levinson’s (1987) impoliteness strategies

This study has evaluated whether Brown and Levinson’s (1987) impoliteness strategies, ‘strengthen face threatening acts or injure one’s face’ as opposed to the politeness strategies, are available to realize the impoliteness in terms of Korean speech acts (especially, Korean drama). It is presented that Brown and Levinson’s (1987) theory of politeness encompasses the potential of impoliteness: the speech acts are face threatening acts and the polite intentions are face-saving and polite impicature deviated from Grice’s (1975) cooperate principle. But through the limitations of their theory, which is concerned in linguistic strategies in the level of utterances and face notion as the personal basic wants not the social norm, Brown and Levinson (1987) cannot deal with perfect impoliteness and produce the non-politeness category in Korean speech acts. As the results of applying their impoliteness strategies, we found that they had no correlation in the rank of impoliteness degree and each of them conflicted, positiveㆍnegative impoliteness strategies appeared in onㆍoff record ones and in one speech act positiveㆍnegative ones did at same times. That is the judgement of impoliteness depends on social norms, social duty and role, context(social relations of participants of talk; verticalㆍhorizontal relations and intimate distance, prior situations and expectation) and responses of hearer through recognition of them.