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The Semantics and Pragmatics of English Rising Declaratives : 영어 상승 평서문의 의미와 화용

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dc.contributor.advisor이정미-
dc.contributor.author홍준선-
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T04:46:57Z-
dc.date.available2023-11-20T04:46:57Z-
dc.date.issued2023-
dc.identifier.other000000178483-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10371/197233-
dc.identifier.urihttps://dcollection.snu.ac.kr/common/orgView/000000178483ko_KR
dc.description학위논문(석사) -- 서울대학교대학원 : 인문대학 영어영문학과, 2023. 8. 이정미.-
dc.description.abstractEnglish rising declaratives are one of non-canonical structures, composed of morphosyntactically declarative sentences with rising intonation. This thesis aims to address the question of how rising declaratives are conveyed and interpreted, taking into account the interaction of clause types, intonation, and discourse context. The final goal is to develop a comprehensive and compositional account of the contributions of rising intonation to the declaratives it accompanies.
I start out by adopting two fundamental types of rising declaratives (Jeong, 2018a, 2018b) which differ in their function. The two main types of rising declaratives are labeled as assertive rising declaratives and inquisitive rising declaratives, and they each act as tentative assertions or biased questions. Additionally, I introduce subtypes of rising declaratives that have not received much attention in previous research. In the case of assertive rising declaratives, the tentativeness may be epistemic, but it can also be metalinguistic. These structures are often associated with indirectness and are frequently employed as a politeness strategy. Conversely, inquisitive rising declaratives can convey the speakers positive bias, but sometimes they imply negative bias instead. Furthermore, when expressing negative speaker bias, they may additionally indicate the speaker's mirativity.
I pursue an account couched within the Table model (Farkas & Bruce, 2010; Malamud & Stephenson, 2015), extended from Lewisian model of discourse (Lewis, 1979). Building on this framework, I propose two significant contributions of rising intonation to the conventional discourse effect of canonical declaratives. Firstly, rising intonation conventionally increases the inquisitive content of the proposition, influenced by the steepness of the rise. Secondly, rising intonation signals the projection of discourse components by interacting with the discourse context. The resulting account effectively reconciles the role of both semantics and pragmatics in the interpretation of rising declaratives. It also sheds light on how the interface of semantics and pragmatics generates discourse effects observed in different types of rising declaratives.
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dc.description.abstract영어의 상승 평서문(English rising declaratives)은 평서문이 상승 억양과 결합한 비정형적(non-canonical) 구조이다. 본 논문은 상승 평서문이 구문의 유형, 억양, 대화 맥락 간의 상호작용을 통하여 전달 및 이해되는 과정에 대해 논하며, 상승 억양이 평서문과 결합하였을 때의 기능에 대한 종합적인 분석을 제시한다.
논의는 Jeong(2018a, 2018b)이 주장한 상승 평서문의 두 가지 기본 유형에서 출발한다. 이 두 기본 유형은 각각 단언적 상승 평서문(assertive rising declaratives)과 문의적 상승 평서문(inquisitive rising declaratives)으로 분류되며, 전자는 유보적 단언(tentative assertion)의 기능을, 후자는 편향적 질문(biased question)의 기능을 가진다. 이에 더하여, 본 논문은 기존 논의가 충분하지 않았던 세부 유형에 대하여 논의한다. 단언적 상승 평서문의 유보성(tentativeness)이 인식론적(epistemic)일 수 있는 동시에 초언어적(metalinguistic)일 수 있음을 주장하며, 간접성(indirectness)과의 밀접한 관련성에 주목하여 공손 전략으로의 사용에 대해 설명한다. 한편, 문의적 상승 평서문은 화자의 긍정적 편향을 전달하고자 사용될 수 있는 동시에, 부정적 편향을 표상할 수 있다. 더 나아가, 화자의 부정적 편향을 표현함과 동시에 놀라움이나 감탄의 기능을 가지는 것 또한 가능하다.
본 저자가 주장하는 이론은 Lewisian 모델 (Lewis, 1979)을 확장한 Table 모델 (Farkas & Bruce, 2010; Malamud & Stephenson, 2015)에 기반하고 있다. 이 체계를 바탕으로, 상승 평서문이 표준(canonical) 평서문에 미치는 두 가지 중요한 역할을 주장한다. 첫째, 상승 억양은 상승의 정도에 따라 관습적(conventional)으로 명제의 탐구성(inquisitive content)을 증가시킨다. 둘째, 상승 억양은 대화 맥락과 상호 작용하여 담화 요소들(discourse components)을 투사(project)한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 이론은 상승 평서문의 해석 과정에서의 의미와 화용의 역할을 효과적으로 설명하는 동시에, 이들의 접합면을 통하여 각기 다른 유형의 상승 평서문의 담화 효과가 생성되는 과정에 대한 해석을 제공한다.
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dc.description.tableofcontentsChapter 1 Introduction 1
Part Ⅰ Rising Declaratives in English 9
Chapter 2 Phenomena 10
2.1 Observations 10
2.2 Empirical Generalizations 17
2.2.1 Assertive Rising Declaratives 17
2.2.1.1 Weakened Speaker Competence 20
2.2.1.2 Addressee Ignorance 21
2.2.1.3 Addressee Ratification 22
2.2.2 Inquisitive Rising Declaratives 23
2.2.2.1 Variable Speaker Epistemic Bias 25
2.2.2.2 Anticipation of Addressee Commitment 26
2.2.2.3 Request of Addressee Response 28
2.2.3 Takeaways 29
Chapter 3 Previous Approaches 30
3.1 Preliminaries 30
3.1.1 Discourse Components 30
3.1.2 Context Update Conventions 35
3.2 Previous Approaches 40
3.2.1 Hirschberg & Ward (1995) 41
3.2.2 Gunlogson (2003, 2008) 43
3.2.3 Poschmann (2008) 46
3.2.4 Westera (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018) 48
3.2.5 Malamud & Stephenson (2015) 50
3.2.6 Farkas & Roelofsen (2017) 53
3.2.7 Jeong (2018a, 2018b) 55
3.2.8 Rudin (2018a, 2022) 59
3.2.9 Goodhue (2021) 65
3.3 Summary 69
Part Ⅱ Formal Analysis 71
Chapter 4 Interpretation 72
4.1 The Framework 72
4.1.1 Semantic Content 72
4.1.2 Commitments 82
4.1.3 Biases 86
4.1.4 Conventional Discourse Effects 89
4.1.5 The Division of Labor 91
4.2 Contributions of Rising Intonation 93
4.2.1 On Semantic Content 93
4.2.2 On Discourse Components 94
Chapter 5 Assertive Rising Declaratives 97
5.1 Proposals 97
5.1.1 Two Types of Uncertainty 97
5.1.2 The Projected Table 103
5.1.3 Politeness Effects 107
5.2 Contextual Interpretation 110
5.3 Paradigms 114
5.3.1 Epistemic Uncertainty 114
5.3.2 Metalinguistic Uncertainty 123
5.3.3 Politeness 131
5.4 Interim Summary 135
Chapter 6 Inquisitive Rising Declaratives 137
6.1 Proposals 137
6.1.1 Confirmative vs. Contradictory 137
6.1.2 Negative Bias without Commitments 144
6.1.3 Mirative Not-At-Issue Content in Mirative IRDs 151
6.2 Contextual Interpretation 156
6.3 Paradigms 160
6.3.1 Confirmative 160
6.3.2 Contradictory 165
6.3.3 Mirative 170
6.4 Interim Summary 175
Chapter 7 Conclusion and Outlook 178
7.1 Recap of the Analysis 178
7.2 Future Developments 181
7.2.1 Impoliteness 182
7.2.2 Variance in Terminal Contour 183
7.2.3 Other Non-Canonical Sentence Types 184
7.3 In Closing 185
References 186
국문초록 202
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dc.format.extentix, 203-
dc.language.isoeng-
dc.publisher서울대학교 대학원-
dc.subjectrising declaratives-
dc.subjecttentative assertions-
dc.subjectbiased questions-
dc.subjectsemantics-pragmatics interface-
dc.subjectintonation-
dc.subjectclause types-
dc.subjectdiscourse effects-
dc.subject.ddc820-
dc.titleThe Semantics and Pragmatics of English Rising Declaratives-
dc.title.alternative영어 상승 평서문의 의미와 화용-
dc.typeThesis-
dc.typeDissertation-
dc.contributor.AlternativeAuthorJunseon Hong-
dc.contributor.department인문대학 영어영문학과-
dc.description.degree석사-
dc.date.awarded2023-08-
dc.identifier.uciI804:11032-000000178483-
dc.identifier.holdings000000000050▲000000000058▲000000178483▲-
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