학술 텍스트에 나타난 한국어 헤지 표현 선정 연구

A Study on teaching Korean Hedging Expression for KAP Learners

This article aims to conceptualize instructional content for teaching Korean hedging expressions for Korean learners with academic purposes. Hedging is widely known as the expression that writers or speakers to deliver their attitude of tentativeness and possibility towards to the statements they make. According to Hyland(1995), Hedging expressions present unproven claims with caution and softening categorical assertions and they are crucial to scientific writing where statements are rarely made without subjective assessments of truth. In the field of ESL, hedging is one of the most attention-receiving research topics for ESP learners and the various lists of English hedging expression as instructional contents for those learners has been established. However, in Korean language education as a foreign or second language, Hedge is a area that is rarely discussed yet. Considering the expanding number of KAP learners, it is important to conceptualize Korean hedging expression as teaching content and to identify what expressions to teach. This article, therefor, will examine Korean scientific journals so as to discover what linguistic items perform a hedging role and analyze the items upon their linguistic features. I will, thereby, suggest a list of Korean hedging expression that needs to be included in instructional content for KAP learners.