The pragmatics and syntax of pragmatic morphemes in Korean

This thesis has two goals, describing the uses of some selected Pragmatic Morphemes (PMs) in Korean and giving an account of their syntactic behaviors in the GPSG framework. First, according to the Cooperative Principle, I describe how the speaker uses a PM and how the hearer understands it. I claim that a PM has one sense and its various uses are inferred from that sense according to the Gricean CP. When the speaker uses a PM in his utterance, he assumes the hearer believes he has goals, and he expects her to be able to figure out its uses which are relevant to his goals in a way indicated by its sense because he believes she assumes he does not use it without any purpose. The hearer believes that the speaker used that PM in support of his goals, and can infer from its sense how it is relevant to his goal at the moment.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Language, Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Lee, Han-gyu

Contributors dc:contributor

• Green, Georgia M.

• Language, Linguistics
• Speech Communication

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Lee, Han-gyu

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9305597
(UMI)AAI9305597

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23708