복합 지시사의 감정 용법에 관한 연구

Abstract

This paper focuses on the emotional uses of complex demonstratives, expressions of the form this/that N or these/those Ns, which create a sense of closeness, camaraderie, or vividness that goes beyond simply referring something close to or distant from the speaker. Adopting the framework of relevance theory, this paper argues that a complex demonstrative encodes a pro-conceptual meaning, expressing a concept via a mandatory contextual specification of a distance parameter in its lexical meaning. This parameter is a kind of variable that must receive a value in order to be fully understood, but it falls under the scope of the procedure which provides guidance for the hearer to orient his or her attention on the intended referent. When the referent is already highly accessible through the information encoded by the noun in the complex demonstrative, the effort required to process the pro-conceptual and procedural information provided by the complex demonstrative is justified by yielding weak implicatures.