일인칭 복수 대명사의 절차적 의미와 관련성

Abstract

This paper aims to look at what the first person plural pronouns ‘we' and ‘wuli' mean in English and Korean, respectively, the information that they encode and the effect that the information has. This paper also shows how the hearer uses that encoded meaning to interpret the pronouns in utterance contexts. I shall be adopting the framework of relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1986/95) and demonstrating that pronouns are fundamentally procedural in nature, encoding the information about the inferential process that the hearer should use. Guided by the overarching principle of relevance, it is argued that the hearer resolves reference assignment pragmatically as a part of the relevance-theoretic comprehension procedure, drawing information from many possible sources in the process.