화용론적 관점에서 본 의문문 교육 연구

Study on Interrogative Sentences in Korean Textbooks from a Perspective of Pragmatic Failure

Pragmatic failure is a term that describes a failure to produce and to understand situationally appropriate language behavior. Pragmalinguistic failure is one of the categories of the pragmatic failure and it represents failures which is concerned with differences in the linguistic encoding of pragmatic meaning or force. Interrogative sentences are commonly used as a syntactic down-grader in oder to reduce such pragmalinguistic failures. This paper aims at analysing Korean language textbooks and suggesting alternative pedagogical approach to educate Korean language learners interrogative sentences as syntactic down-graders so that they can experience less pragmatic failures. The result of the textbook analysis shows that the current Korean language textbooks don’t contain and present much of various usages of interrogative sentences which are used to decrease the degree of enforcement and eventually avoid communicational breakdown. So the Korean language educators need to develop an alternative approach to teach interrogative sentences as syntactic down-graders. One of the approaches that this paper suggests is to apply the heuristic method because students can realize the difference between their utterance and the native Korean’s utterance through the heuristic study and that can help students have more motivation to use syntactic down-graders such as interrogative sentences.