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The Discourse-Pragmatic Uses of the Korean Interrogative Sentence Enders -Na/-(u)Nka, -Nya, and -Ni.

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Title/Author:	The Discourse-Pragmatic Uses of the Korean Interrogative Sentence Enders -Na/-(u)Nka, -Nya, and -Ni./
Author:	Jeong, Seunggon.
Description:	1 online resource (160 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-08A(E).
Subject:	Asian studies. -
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ISBN:	9780355811247

The Discourse-Pragmatic Uses of the Korean Interrogative Sentence Enders -Na/-(u)Nka, -Nya, and -Ni.
Jeong, Seunggon.

The Discourse-Pragmatic Uses of the Korean Interrogative Sentence Enders -Na/-(u)Nka, -Nya, and -Ni. - 1 online resource (160 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation attempts to contribute to the study of Korean sentence enders by investigating one particular type of sentence enders---i.e., interrogative sentence enders. By exploring the discourse-pragmatic functions of the familiar and plain speech level interrogative sentence enders -na/--(u)nka, --nya, and --ni that are employed in naturally-occurring informal conversations, this dissertation seeks to illuminate the discourse-pragmatic functions of these interrogative sentence enders and thereby move beyond the traditional account of these interrogative sentence enders as a sentence type and speech level marker. This dissertation shows that the familiar speech level interrogative sentence ender -na/-(u)nka, which is often prosodically realized as a high boundary tone, functions as an epistemic modality marker of uncertainty and is employed for various pragmatic uses as follows: (a) to ask other-addressed questions, (b) to tentatively assert factual information, (c) to allude to disagreements, (d) to express thoughts and feelings in the form of rhetorical questions, and (e) to ask self-addressed questions. It also shows that the speakers use the plain speech level interrogative sentence enders --nya and --ni for stance taking or discourse organization. --Nya and --ni that are used to form a rhetorical question function as an alignment marker. As a divergent alignment marker, --nya is used to index the current speaker's disagreement with the prior speaker's stance whereas --ni, as a convergent alignment marker, is employed to index the current speaker's agreement with the prior speaker's stance. --Nya and --ni that are used as genuine information-seeking questions function as a discourse-organizing marker. --Nya functions as an index of topic discontinuity and is used to form a question that deals with a new topic whereas --ni functions as an index of topic continuity and is employed to inquire about a previously established topic. By documenting the discourse-pragmatic functions of -na/-(u)nka as an epistemic modality marker as well as those of --nya and --ni as an alignment marker and a discourse-organizing marker, this dissertation demonstrates that sentence enders are not only a syntactic resource but also a discourse-pragmatic resource.

Electronic reproduction.
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2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355811247Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179577
Asian studies.
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