간접발화의 사용실태에 대한 한일대조연구

Abstract

I have been examining the reality of usage of indirect speech act by 1,123 Koreans and Japanese and it can be summarized as follows: First, as for the frequency of use of indirect speech act, Koreans were higher than the Japanese in all the 9 utterances that were surveyed this time. It is generally known that Japanese use indirect and euphemistic expressions more, but the result of this study shows that Koreans use more indirect speech act than Japanese do. As for intention of speech act, expressions like‘Come to visit me when you are free (to an intimate junior),’ ‘I will contact you later again (to one’s superior),’ ‘I will come again (when coming out of the store after shopping)’ are used frequently in Korean and Japanese as indirect speech acts of ‘formal greetings,’ ‘a little bit loony person,’ and ‘euphemistic refusal’. But expressions like ‘Let’s have a drink/dinner sometime (to an intimate friend),’ ‘I might not make the meeting tomorrow (depending on the situation),’ ‘He/she is a funny guy’are frequently used as literal direct speech acts in Korean and Japanese.It is just that‘I’ll contact you after thinking about that’is frequently used as indirect speech actsof euphemistic refusal in Korea, but it is used frequently as literal direct speech act of positive thought.