감사 화행에 나타난 대화 전략 연구

Abstract

The speech acts on the basis of the background of social culture are different from each language and culture in their traits. So appropriate speech acts for certain condition become the expression of capacity in communication. The speech act of thanking keeps the principles of politeness and holds positive human relations with each other. Also it plays the important role to continuous conversation when it comes to the respects from conversational structure. Therefore, examining the patterns of speech act of thanking means the basis for understanding the traits of korean language and korean culture. This study examines the aspects of realization on the speech act of thanking as the object of study. It identifies strategic view of the speech act of thanking by examining the functional side which it plays a part according to the position where it is placed in relations. The speech act of thanking which appeared as escorting utterances accomplishes the function which substitutes the ending of conversation. In addition, the speech act of thanking in escorting utterances functions for converting the topic. At this moment, it becomes the way to express politeness rather than change the topic directly. From the view of strategic side in conversation, the speech act of thanking respects the province of a person’s independence and, is used as a strategy for keeping a person’s dignity. Especially, it functions as a strategy of respect through keeping up a person’s dignity inactively among Brown & Levinson’s(1987). Functional side which is included in the speech act of thanking shows that it can be as itself the pattern of expression in korean language. Therefore, it needs to be studied on the speech act of thanking as an object of large colloquial corpus. Although it has the limit of study which is accomplished with colloquial language, it has the meaning as a basic study on total speech act of thanking to accomplish in the future and will be an opportunity for accomplishing study continuously.