Discourse functions of Korean ‘yes’ words
| dc.contributor.author | Pyun, Danielle O. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yoon, Kyung-Eun | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-10T16:04:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-10T16:04:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-03-28 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study examines discourse functions of Korean ‘yes’ words from an interactional perspective based on naturally-occurring conversation data. Tokens of yey, ney, ey, ung, um, and e in Korean are widely recognized as affirmative responses. A close examination of these tokens, however, reveals wide-ranging interactional functions through which speakers express active engagement, share information, negotiate meaning, and maintain discourse coherence. The present study identifies a total of fifteen discourse-pragmatic functions of Korean ‘yes’ words: (1) affirmative answer, (2) confirmation, (3) acceptance, (4) agreement, (5) answer to summons, (6) acknowledge ment, (7) change-of-state, (8) change-of-activity, (9) response solicitation, (10) reinforcement, (11) other initiation of repair, (12) closing of phone call, (13) continuer, (14) proposal to discontinue the on-going action for the sake of a larger course of action, and (15) arguably hesitation marker. This study demonstrates that the interactional approach enables the discovery of varied discourse functions of a type of linguistic items, which may not be readily available in dictionaries or grammar reference guides. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The two authors contributed equally to this article. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/kl.00013.pyu?crawler=true | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 28 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2k4yt-g0kg | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Pyun, Danielle O. and Kyung-Eun Yoon. Discourse functions of Korean ‘yes’ words. Korean Linguistics 18 (Mar 2022) Issue 1,, p. 48 - 75. https://doi.org/10.1075/kl.00013.pyu | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1075/kl.00013.pyu | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/24679 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | John Benjamins | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | * |
| dc.title | Discourse functions of Korean ‘yes’ words | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-4809 | en_US |