한국어 학술지 논문 초록의 헤지 표현 및 부스터 표현 사용 양상 연구

Hedges and Boosters in the Abstracts of Korean Research Articles

The present study aims at investigating the use of hedges and boosters in Korean research article abstracts of five academic disciplines. Hedges and boosters are linguistic forms that encode the uncertainty and the definite attitude of the writer or speaker. These expressions do not contribute to the composition of the propositional contents in academic discourse, but they are linguistic devices that express the epistemic stance of the writer or the speaker. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, a corpus was constructed by selecting 40 abstracts in each academic field, and the use of hedges and boosters was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Based on the analysis results, the pedagogical implications of writing abstracts were discussed. Firstly, Korean learners for academic purposes should understand the interpersonality in the abstracts of research articles. Secondly, the differences in the use of hedges and boosters between different disciplines should be taken into account in teaching research article abstract writing. Lastly, it is necessary to teach different linguistic forms of hedges and boosters, and the locations where they are used in the abstract moves.