A Study on the Use of Honorific Ending ‘－Si－’ for the Situation Subject by Netizen

Lee, Jeongbok

doi:10.19069/kordialect.2022.35.107

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“…Jung, 2000;Sohn, 1999). However, since the 1990s, Japanese (Cook, 1997(Cook, , 1998Maynard, 1993;Okamoto, 1998Okamoto, , 1999 and Korean (Kim and Strauss, 2018;Lee, 1996Lee, , 1999Lee and Cho, 2015;Strauss and Eun, 2005;Yoon, 2015) studies that utilize conversation data have demonstrated that speakers often shift between different honorific levels within one spate of conversation. These studies often draw on the theoretical framework of indexicality (Ochs, 1992;Peirce and Buchler, 1955;Silverstein, 2003), analyzing such shifts as indexing momentary shifts in a speaker's stance in their construction and negotiation of the self, relationship with the addressee, the current speech event, the action under way, and so forth.…”

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Between honorifics and non-honorifics: A study of the Korean semi-honorific style and a comparison with Japanese

Kim

2023

Discourse Studies

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Korean possesses a highly intricate honorific system with six speech styles, each indicating a different degree of respect, intimacy, and formality. While the two styles at the honorific level and the two at the non-honorific level are in daily use, the two styles at the middle level of the six have mostly disappeared due to the shift toward a less hierarchical and less formal society. In this study, using both diachronic and synchronic corpus data, I demonstrate that a new speech style, which I call the “semi-honorific style,” has emerged, partially filling the void created by the two disappearing ones, and I propose the mechanism of the new style’s grammaticalization. Constructed by combining honorific and non-honorific markers in a single sentence, the “semi-honorific style” occupies the space between the honorific and non-honorific levels. I compare this with the Japanese “semi-polite” form, whose rise has been noted by recent studies.

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Between honorifics and non-honorifics: A study of the Korean semi-honorific style and a comparison with Japanese

Kim

2023

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“…Strauss and Eun (2005) suggest that they differ in terms of the semantic feature +/−boundary and its attendant indexing of exclusion and inclusion within the phenomenon known as honorific speech level alternation, whereas Eun and Strauss (2004) claim that hapsyo-chey delivers new non-shared information and hayyo-chey shares common-sense-level information. C.-S. Lee (1996), in 2. This style is considered inappropriate in normal interpersonal relationships and is used only in prayers, poetry, and rituals, although it was not infrequent as recently as in the mid-twentieth century.…”

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Korean speech styles and Finnish terms of address from the perspective of KFL learners

Kim

2023

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Korean speech styles (hapsyo-chey and hayyo-chey in particular) are compared with Finnish terms of address from the perspective of KFL learners, focusing on three variables, namely “power”, “distance”, and “imposition” (Brown and Levinson, 1987). The comparison is based on Peterson (2010), which the current study replicates. The data were collected during a Discourse Completion Task: seventy-eight native speakers of Korean were provided with seven scenarios depicting everyday situations. The results underpin the common belief that hayyo-chey is the most common speech style in Korean society. On the pedagogical level, therefore, it should be considered unmarked, meaning that no explication such as “informal polite” is required. However, hapsyo-chey should be introduced as a speech style that may be mixed with hayyo-chey, but also as the norm exclusively used in some restricted formal and writing contexts. Other speech styles may be explained in a similar manner in the KFL classroom.

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A Study on the Use of Honorific Ending ‘－Si－’ for the Situation Subject by Netizen

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Between honorifics and non-honorifics: A study of the Korean semi-honorific style and a comparison with Japanese

Between honorifics and non-honorifics: A study of the Korean semi-honorific style and a comparison with Japanese

Korean speech styles and Finnish terms of address from the perspective of KFL learners

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