원어민 대화 코퍼스와 고등학교 영어 교과서, 영어회화 교재에 나타난 담화표지어 ‘but’에 관한 비교 연구

Abstract

Discourse markers (DMs), which guide the hearer toward the meaning intended by the speaker, consist of a functionally related group of expressions marking relations between units of discourse. Despite a growing interest in DMs, little research has concentrated on the analysis of their use in pedagogical settings. The present study compares the use of the DM but in an American conversation corpus, Korean high school English textbooks, and global ELT textbooks. The results from the analysis indicate that but is less frequently used in Korean textbooks than the corpus and ELT textbooks, and of all the thirteen functions of but about 66% of the uses represented in Korean textbooks consist of denial of expectation. Given that the appropriate use of DMs is essential to develop communicative competence, textbooks require more detailed and accurate presentations of how the DM but is used in real-life situations.