‘-지 않을 수 없다’의 의미 분석 및 교육 방안

The Meanings of ‘-ji anhoel su eops-’ and Their Application to Korean Language Education

This research aims to conduct a corpus study on the meanings of ‘-ji anhoel su eops-’ and their application to Korean language education. An analysis of 4,563 examples of ‘-ji anhoel su eops-’ in the “21st Century Sejong Modern Korean Corpora” was conducted. As a result, it was concluded that ‘-ji anhoel su eops-’ is used for three meanings [inevitability] (不可避), [obligation] (當爲), and [unavoidable occurrence] (必然發生). The meaning of ‘-ji anhoel su eops-’ can vary depending on the context. Therefore, syntactic, semantic, and discourse analysis, considering the grammatical features, such as person (人稱) and agency (意志), was utilized in this research. Also, the agent’s attitude toward the situation was analyzed, to look into whether each meaning was correlated with positive, negative, or neutral contexts. The results are summarized as follows: 1) When the subject of a sentence is the second person or the third person, ‘-ji anhoel su eops-’ is used to express [inevitability]. 2) When the subject of a sentence is the first person, other meanings can be expressed; If ‘-ji anhoel su eops-’ collocates with emotional verbs, then [unavoidable occurrence] is expressed. And if it collocates with agency verbs, then [obligation] can be expressed only in positive contexts. By contrast, ‘-ji anhoel su eops-’ is widely used to express [inevitability] in negative or neutral contexts. 3) Since these three meanings are realized in stages on a syntactic, semantic, and discourse level, it is helpful to present a checklist explaining the conditions for occurrence of each meaning in grammar class to foreign students.