수사구조이론과 한국어 텍스트 분석의 실제

Abstract

Rhetorical Structure Theory has been considered as a useful method for analyzing text structures since it was introduced for the first time in the 1980's. This study is to examine how this Rhetorical Structure Theory could be used as a tool for Korean text analysis by describing the whole process of text analysis. In chapter 2, the previous researches on the text analysis based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory in Korea have been reviewed and it is concluded that the Rhetorical Structure Theory has been applied in the various fields of Korean linguistics. In chapter 3, the Rhetorical Structure Theory itself has been introduced as a descriptive theory for text analysis defining some key concepts such as 'spans, nucleus and satellite, relations, schemas' and introducing the steps of the analysis according to the theory. In chapter 4, the entire process of Korean text analysis according to the framework of the Rhetorical Structure Theory is demonstrated. As the result of this analysis, it is noted that the Subject Matter Relations such as Elaboration and Circumstance are likely to occur more often than the Presentational Relations such as Background and Evidence due to the characteristics of the text function of the reported news stories. As the major function of the reported news stories is to give the readers the objective summary of the news event or accident, so that the text readers are urged only to understand the facts the text is dealing with but not to change their attitudes or behaviors.