• Speech Sciences
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.289-305
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• 2001

The conjunctive marker '-ko' in Korean can be interpreted as meaning either conjunctive 'and' or ordering 'and then'. The interpretation of '-ko' is ambiguous in written texts but not in spoken texts. It is because the meaning of the utterance is determined by the combination of the text with its prosody. The two meanings of ' -ko' can be explained by the theory of implicature, which was introduced by Grice (1973, 1981). This paper examines the meaning of the marker '-ko' with respect to the relation between its meaning and prosody. The results of the experiments in this paper showed that the prosodic phrasing in Korean influences the interpretation of the marker '-ko'. When two constituents combined by '-ko' are realized in the same accentual phrase, the marker can be interpreted as meaning 'exactly be orderly'. This meaning can be classified as the Particularlized Conversational Implicature (PCl) in Gricean theory. In the other cases of phrasing, the marker '-ko' can mean either 'conjunctive' or 'be orderly' by the Generalized Conversational Implicature (GCI). The fact that phrasing determines the interpretations of the marker '-ko' can be seen as supporting the view that prosody interacts with various levels of linguistic phenomena from phonology to pragmatics.

• Korean Linguistics
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• v.64
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• pp.195-223
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• 2014

The aim of this paper is to study the morphemization of {Geuraegajigo} based on a spontaneous speech corpus. For this purpose, the distributions, the semantic functions, and the intonational phrase pattterns of the connective {Geuraegajigo} have been analyzed based on the corpus. The results are as follow; at first, coalescence that comes with a morphemization process was found, resulting in many variations. Secondly, there are three functions of it: [Direct/Indirect interrelationship], [Enumerate conjunction], and [Discourse marker]. And this semantic/functional diversity has many similarities with conjunctive adverbs. Lastly, intonational phrase patterns of {Geuraegajigo} accord with those of conjunctive adverbs. Especially, the discourse strategic IP pattern is connected with the short variation type. In conclusion, {Geuraegajigo} has finished turning into a conjunctive adverb through morphemization.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.79-92
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• 2022

This study examines the propositional connections and markers for connecting propositions in the texts of the 3^rd- and 6^th-grade science textbooks developed under the 2015 Revised Science Curriculum. A selection of texts from Korean and social science textbooks were analyzed and compared to those from science textbooks as well. The propositional connections were classified into emphasis, elaboration, exemplification, listing, addition, order, correspondence, causal relation, condition, and purpose types. The markers for the relationship of propositions were classified as demonstrative, using conjunctive, using a comma, using distinctive linguistic elements, and no marker types. The results showed that the frequency of propositional connections in the texts of the 6^th-grade textbooks was lower than that of Korean and/or social science textbooks. However, the frequency of the propositional connections in the texts of the 3^rd-grade textbooks was found to be lower than that of the social science textbook but higher than that of the Korean textbook. The types of order, listing, condition, and causal relation were dominant in science as well as Korean and social science textbooks. Over 40% of the markers for the relationship of propositions were found to be the no marker type, with the ratio of the no marker type being especially higher in the categories of order and causal relation.