고등학교 사회 교과서의 텍스트언어학적 분석

Abstract

This essay is an analysis of text structure and textuality in Korean high school social studies textbooks. Firstly, to understand text structure, this paper examined how each main chapter is consisted of the subject matters in the National Curriculum; that each main chapter is made up of several middle chapters and each middle chapter is made up of several sub chapters, showing multi-layered structure, and that each chapter has an introduction, (sub) chapter, advanced studies part, review in sequence. Especially, the structure of sub chapters, which is the core in textbooks, plays a pivotal role in marking each textbook’s characteristic. Secondly, to apprehend textuality, this thesis approached from coherence and intentionality. It examined the lexicon cohesion in meta-text, such as the title of the main chapter and the middle chapter,introduction, and theme cohesion of the keywords in context text. It analyzed intentionality what had the details of the subject matters and how some context text in sub chapter showed unintended intentionality. In social studies textbook, not only the context-text in sub chapters but also the material text and task-based activity text in advanced studies parts play an important role; they show theme coherence with learning objectives and therefore show coherence with context text in sub chapters. Particularly, the material text in advanced studies parts were not indispensable for achieving learning objectives, indicating that they are rather optional than mandatory. Moreover, this paper compared task-based activity texts in several types of social studies textbooks, and analyzed the contributors’ intentionality. It is essential for task-based activity texts to have coherence between context text and directive text which compose task-based activity texts. However,in some cases, the cohesion is dwindled, and therefore clouding the contributors’ intentionality. This infers, once more, that coherence and intentionality has a correlation. Through examining social studies textbooks from the textlinguistic view, this essay expanded the scope of text-linguistics by apprehending the categorization of texts in textbooks, structure of texts,distinguishing features in coherence and intentionality.