The purpose of this thesis is to emphasize the necessity of text linguistic education in the area of Korean language education, especially on writing for foreigners studying Korean language. The reason why Writing is recognized as the most difficult f...
The purpose of this thesis is to emphasize the necessity of text linguistic education in the area of Korean language education, especially on writing for foreigners studying Korean language. The reason why Writing is recognized as the most difficult field in Language learning is that there are many factors such as grammatical knowledge, background knowledge and intelligent ability work on writing processes. Good text production means the effective expression of one's intension and that is decided by the grammatical connection in structure and coherent organization in content of the text. Therefore this study focus on how these cohesion is represented through the cohesive devices in the written text of korean native students and foreign students.
Cohesion is a important linguistic mechanism get a text to be text, also semantic relation the pragmatic intension intervene in it, not arrangement of grammatical relation but select and arrangement of grammatical mechanism for communicational goals. This study starts in the perspective that the textual linguistic writing could be the good opportunity to reconsider the direction to the overall writings of how the reference, conjunction, ellipsis, reiteration is balanced and all of those causes the writer to achieve effectively their intension and which selection among those cohesive devices is best way to achieve semantic coherence.
The result of this study is as follows.
Chapter I investigated the necessity and goal of this study and examined the previous study about the cohesion devices. So far the study in related to text linguistics has been focused on the pragmatics and spoken language, or has been established not in the total perspective of research but in the direction of partial study due to the huge scope of cohesive devices, and especially there has been little study for the foreign students studying Korean language.
At the chapter Ⅱ investigates the process of establishment of text linguistics as the theoretical background on which this thesis is based, the conception of cohesion and coherence as the core quality of textuality, and also four Korean cohesive devices of reference, conjunction, ellipsis, reiteration on the basis of Halliday and Hasan's cohesive analysis frame.
Chapter Ⅲ introduces the experimental groups of foreign students at the intermediate level and experimental procedure, the colligated standard of reference, conjunction, ellipsis, reiteration and investigates the aspects of use of the 4 cohesive devices represented in the written text of Koren native speakers and the foreign students learning Korean. Reference are classified with topic maintenance, and topic inclusion, topic recollection, discourse link, emphasis by its function, Ellipsis are divided with context ellipsis and conceptional ellipsis, Conjunction with addition, detail. contrast, causal, conversion, time, Reiteration are colligated with the repetition of same word, synonomous relation, contrastive relation, superordinate relation, text coordinate relation.
Chapter Ⅳ checks the frequency and funtion in use of overall cohesive devices between Korean students and Foreign students and the aspect of functional use of them. Especially this study examined the difference in use of discours cohesive devices and the macro structure in meaning between Korean native writers and Korean language learner, also was represented the problem in using various cohesive measures.
The result of the frequency and the difference in the 4 cohesive measures is as follows.
First, at the three cohesive devices except ellipsis among 4 measures Korean showed high frequency and function in the use of 4 kinds of devices comparing to Foreigners. Only ellipsis frequency was represented more frequently in the text of Foreigners, which is caused by their spoken styled writing and its excessive ellipsis in producing their subject and topics of text.
Second, In the case of frequency of the use in function was also high and was showed various function in the written text of Korean native speakers.
Third, The most remarkable distinction was presented partially in the aspects of functional use in reference. Among those of functional use in reference, the modifier form used to include the topics such like 'ileohan. geuleohan' was not produced even in one text of Foreigners. Among the two reference ranges, 'i' and 'geu' of Korean languages, 'i' ranges is preferred by Korean and the other by Foreigners. This preference in selection between these references means that the Koreans tend to recognize subjectively something that around them and express the pragmatic attitude of judging by their own point of view. These results also brought out the lack of discourse use of Korean students.
Firth, In the case of ellipsis we can see the different result comparing to that of general opinion that Korean native speakers using ellipsis much. On the contrary to the expectation, the Foreigners showed more frequency in the use of ellipsis and it is caused by their spoken style owing to their poor expression in the written style.
Fifth, Conjunction is not presented meaningful differences between two writers than any other cohesive measures in frequency and variety of use . Sixth, Reiteration by established lexical repetition such as the repetition of same word relation and synonymous relation, contrastive relation and superordinate relation and text coordinate relation also showed more frequent in the use of Korean native speaker than that of Korean learning students. Especially the repetition by synonymous relation was most remarkable differences among reiteration, because Korean native speakers usually achieve lexical cohesion using various synonymous relational words like chinese characters and other complex clauses, but Foreigners was not. And the reason why the reiteration by superordinate repetition is produced much through all of the texts both of Korean and Foreign students owing to it's title of this experimental materials for cohesion analysis is "the good point and the weak point of internet". And this study suggests textual Linguistics to be applied on writing in Korean language for Foreigners.
Ⅴ Chapter regulates this thesis and emphasize the importance of textual linguistic writing in the area of Korean Language education.