아랍어 담화 표지어 /fa/에 관한 절차적 의미 연구

This study aims to investigate the procedural meaning and function of the Arabic discourse marker /fa/, which is used in the standard Arabic language and to critically examine Al-Khalil’s (2005) conversational analysis of the Arabic discourse marker and Ibn Jinnī’s (1952) claim based on relevance theory that discourse particle(al-ḥarf) in Arabic do not encode meanings by themselves. It analyzes the Arabic discourse marker /fa/ based on the procedural meaning of relevance theory of Blakemore (1987, 2002) and argues that discourse markers in the standard Arabic encode procedural meanings such as conclusive import, temporality, explicative force, and unexpectedness. Along the line of this study, /thumma/, /’innama/ and /lakinna/ can also be analyzed as discourse markers. It also claims that it is necessary for the research of discourse markers to provide their natural and meaningful usages in a broad range of situations. The results of this study make it possible to advance from current elementary Arabic teaching methods to practical teaching methods that are more effective in improving learners Arabic proficiency in authentic situations.