Korean subject honorifics: An experimental study
- Title
- Korean subject honorifics: An experimental study
- Author
- 이미선
- Keywords
- Korean subject honorifics; Generational difference; apconpep; Acceptability judgment task
- Issue Date
- 2017-08
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS, v. 117, page. 58-71
- Abstract
- This paper seeks to shed light on the factors that contribute to the use of the Korean subject honorific -(u)si a long-standing issue in the study of pragmatics and politeness in that language. We tested two groups of Korean speakers (younger versus older adults) on two patterns of honorification (a) the classic pattern in which the referent of the subject outranks both the speaker and the hearer, and (b) the split pattern in which the referent of the subject outranks the speaker but not the hearer. In an online acceptability judgrnent task, younger participants (n = 40) showed a strong and quick preference for the use of -(u)si in the classic pattern, but manifested uncertainty in the split pattern. In contrast, older participants (n = 40) showed a significant preference for -(u)si in both the split pattern and the classic pattern when the referent of the subject outranks the speaker. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- URI
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216616305525?via%3Dihubhttps://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/115296
- ISSN
- 0378-2166; 1879-1387
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.06.001
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- COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES[S](인문과학대학) > ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE(영어영문학과) > Articles
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