형태․통사적 완화 장치 분석을 통한 중국어권 한국어 학습자의 간접 화행 연구

A Study on Indirect Speech Act of Korean learners through Analysis of Morphosyntactic Mitigators

This study compares the strategies and morphosyntactic mitigators during the request speech act of Chinese-speaking Korean learners with those of native speakers. The research questions is “What different strategies and morphosyntactic mitigators do native speakers and Chinese-speaking Korean learners use in requests?”. The data was analyzed using frequency analysis. Comparing the strategies in given situations, the results seemed to show that both groups used the “Preparatory condition, Possibility, Permission” strategies to perform the indirect speech act. However, the groups differed in the types and tokens of morphosyntactic mitigators, implying the possibility of pragmatic failure. Moreover, the choice of morphology endings or expressions also differed, confirming the need for learning and teaching in this area. Therefore, further studies on speech act should focus not only on strategies but also on linguistic expressions, and the results should be reflected in the fields of Korean language education. This study attempts to list the teaching items to improve the teaching possibility of pragmatic items.