Case markers as a linguistic cue for processing difficulty and informational importance

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Taeho Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제66호, 199~221쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.12.01

영문 초록

The goal of this study is to examine case markers in Korean, i.e., i/ka and (l)ul, from a communicative perspective. In particular, this study seeks to explain what communicative functions the case markers hold in actual conversation. Based on the empirical analysis of the data, this study claims that the case markers in Korean are not only used for encoding the syntactic case of a given argument but they are also used as a linguistic cue to help focus the listener s attention on the processing difficulty and the informational importance that the given argument denotes. It further argues that speakers of Korean strategically use the case markers as a means of facilitating successful communication with the listener.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Successful communication

3. Processing difficulty and informational importance

4. Factors

키워드

case marker communicative function empirical study game theory informational importance linguistic cue processing difficulty successful communication