담화화제에 있어서의 한일대조연구 - 화제선택과 도입 및 전개를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The study seeks to determine an applicable method in Korean education by reviewing from the perspective of Politeness theory, how discourse topics in the natural conversations of both Koreans and Japanese are chosen and developed when they first meet. Topics such as university life and university major were mostly chosen in both cases, and these choices can be interpreted as indicative of a positive politeness strategy, that is “intensify interest to H” and “seek agreement”. However, when topics were related to privacy, Koreans tended to use a positive politeness strategy, that is “assert common ground”, while Japanese tended to use a negative politeness strategy, that is “minimize the imposition”. Additionally, it was shown that non marked utterances and dicourse marker in topic initiation were used more in Japanese conversation than Korean conversation. This could also be interpreted as a negative politeness strategy. When it comes to topic development, however, both Koreans and Japanese were shown to have a high rate of interactive type.This study demonstrates the importance of providing various natural spoken language materials and also provides evidence that contributes to Korean education through investigating selection, introduction, and development of discourse topics in the natural conversations of both Korean and Japanese.