Modalization as a Strategy for Constructing Writer-Reader Interaction in Text - A Corpus Based Cross-Cultural Text Analysis of English and Korean Newspaper Science Popularizations

• 영문명: Modalization as a Strategy for Constructing Writer-Reader Interaction in Text
• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: Chul-Kyu Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제16권 1호, 49~78쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.30

영문 초록

  A vast amount of research has now established that writer-reader interaction is embodied in written texts through various linguistic devices. Among them, modalization plays a key role as a strategy for constructing the interaction in text. The impetus for this study is that it allows a new perspective to cross-cultural comparison between English and Korean texts. Based on contextual analysis of 356 British and Korean newspaper science popularizations with the two pairs of analytical categories that show how directly the writer performs the interaction with the reader (Types DI and II) and how strongly the writer commits him/herself to propositions (Types S and W), this paper argues that the discoursal preferences in the interactive use of modalization by the two groups of authors seem to be a reflection of the different orientations to human relations in British and Korean societies: equality-orientation in Britain and hierarchy-orientation in Korea.

목차

Abstract
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. The Study
Ⅲ. The Corpora and Analysis
Ⅳ. Results and Discussions
Ⅴ. Conclusion
References

키워드

writer-reader interaction interaction-oriented modalization cross-cultural text analysis science popularizations equality-orientation and hierarchy-orientation