Hye-yun Jeong

This dissertation proposes an experimental study of focus in Spanish, investigating, in particular, if two types of focus – Contrastive focus and Non-contrastive focus – are syntactically and prosodically distinguished. The evidence that the conceptual distinction between the focus subtypes can be represented linguistically has been found in languages (Drubig 2003, E. Kiss 1998, Gundel & Fretheim 2001, Zubizarreta 1998 to name a few). As for Spanish, Zubizarreta (1998) argued that the two types

This study attempts to analyze diverse aspects of impoliteness found in Mexican televised electoral debates. In this paper ‘impoliteness' refers not only to the cases in which the speaker performs an act of communication deliberately to threaten or attack the face of the interlocutor, or the hearer perceives the given speech act to be intentionally face-attacking, in accordance with the definition of Culpeper (2005), but also to the cases in which impolite effects may be produced even without th

This study attempts to examine the existing definitions of echo questions in the literature to typify them by form and function, in particular in terms of Pragmatic perspectives. To begin with, we have distinguished so-called ‘nonstandard questions’ from standard ones following Ilie(1994, 2015) and have differentiated the former among themselves to identify the topic of the current paper, that is, echo questions. In particular Spanish echo questions, as in other languages, have several formal in

This study investigates how informality attracts firms, especially those owned by women in Latin America. Informality has been regarded as one of the critical characteristics of the business environment in Latin America. Although the term informality, due to its heterogeneity, has been defined as different things by different people, we adopt the comprehensive definition of informality at the level of firm-unit as well as at the level of employment based on social protection, as has recently bee

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the realization patterns of cohesion in newspaper articles written in Spanish and Korean by using corpus linguistic technique. The research question to be addressed in this study is as follows: are there any differences in the frequency and distribution of grammatical, lexical, logical or formal cohesion devices used in the newspaper articles between the two languages? Specifically, in this study, devices exhibiting cohesion were classified int

이 글에서 필자는 ‘나 자신이 소리가 되고 소리가 나 자신이 되는 경험’을 ‘니치구성’과 ‘스캐폴딩,’ ‘구현된 인지,’ 정서에 대한 ‘상황점 관점,’ 그리고 ‘어포던스’와 ‘음악적 동조’ 등의 개념을 통해 해명한다. 인간은 자신의 생존과 발전을 도모하는 방식으로 소리환경을 개척하고 조정함으로써 특정한 물질적, 사회문화적, 개인적인 특징을 갖는 소리니치들을 구축해 낸다. 소리니치들은 인간의 인지적, 정감적 과제를 분담하여 인간을 인지적, 정감적으로 거듦으로써 인간의 삶에 기여한다. 특정한 소리니치가 특정한 상황 속에서 이에 연루된 인물을 인지적, 정감적으로 지원하는 일이 반복적으로 일어날 때, 소리니치와 인물은 긴밀하게 통합된 채 하나의 인지적, 정감적 체계를 이룬다. 이 체계들이 인간의 인지적, 정감적 레퍼토리로 확고히 자리 잡을 때 이 체계들은 ‘인지적인 나,’ ‘정감적인 나’를 구성하게 되며 그럼으로써 ‘인지적인 나,’ ‘정감적인 나’를 중요한 구성성분으로 하는 나의 정체성이