로지스틱 회귀분석을 이용한 유의어 「大事」와 「大切」의 사용 양상 비교

Abstract

The present study presents a qualitative, comparative account of the uses of the synonyms daiji and taisetsu, collecting data from large-scale resources and conducting a logistic regression analysis. Our finding indicates that the factors for statistically significant differences between the frequency of daiji and that of taisetsu are “domain,” “importance,” “interest,” “obligatoriness,” and “time-orientation.” Among these factors, the positive correlations for the frequency of daiji are found in “interest” and “obligatoriness,” while the negative correlations are found in “domain,” “importance,” and “time-orientation.” From the point of view of prediction, this result can be restated as follows: taisetsu may be frequently used even when the object is not favored by the speaker and he/she is not obliged to take actions about it, and its frequency may be high even when the speaker is not familiar with the object. Furthermore, the more the speaker values the object in question, the more he/she uses taisetsu than daiji, and if the object has had a continuous relationship with the subject, it is more likely that taisetsu, rather than daiji, is chosen.