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-tamyen as a Marked Conditional Form for the Rhetorical Effect of Distancing in Korean
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- Issue Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.46 No.2, pp. 237-256
- Keywords
- conditionals ; rhetorical effect ; distancing ; hypotheticality
- Abstract
- This paper aims to shed a new light on the functional division of labor between two conditional markers, -myen and -tamyen, in Korean grammar. We observe that -tamyen is infelicitous in the contexts of deictic conditionals and generic conditionals, but favored over -myen to express a specific range of speaker attitudes (i.e., NON-COMMITMENT, DOUBTFUL, and UNREALISTIC IMAGINATION). We argue that the need to evoke the rhetorical effect of distancing explains all and only the felicitous contexts of -tamyen conditionals.
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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