자기 인지 표현의 통사⋅화용적 구조에 대하여 — ‘-다고 생각하다’를 중심으로 — = The Syntactic and Pragmatic Structure of Self-Quoted Cognitive Expressions: Focusing on ‘-dago saenggakhada’

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study focuses on the syntactic representation of discourse-pragmatic information in self-quoted cognitive expressions. While previous research has primarily examined the syntax of quotation clauses, little attention has been given to how embedded clauses in self-quoted cognitive expressions interact with the speaker’s epistemic stance and speech act information.
To address this gap, this study examines spoken corpus data to identify frequently occurring self-quoted cognitive expressions in natural discourse. The analysis reveals that the construction ‘-dogo saenggakhae (I think that...)’ appears most frequently, particularly in patterns such as ‘Naneun NP-ga johdago saenggakhae’, ‘Naneun NP-ga V-ya doendago saenggakhae’, and ‘Naneun NP-ga V-(eu)l su issdago saenggakhae’. These expressions are not mere factual statements but reflect the speaker’s evaluative stance and judgment, indicating a structured interaction between syntax and pragmatics.
Based on these findings, this study explores the discourse-syntactic structure of self-quoted cognitive expressions, the interaction between the speech act phrase (SaP) and the epistemic phrase (SenP) with embedded clauses, and the role of phase extension in their syntactic representation. Unlike previous studies, it argues that embedded clauses are influenced by higher speech act and epistemic domains, with SaP representing the speaker’s utterance and SenP marking the source of information. Cognitive verbs such as ‘saenggakhae’ function as the head of SaP, determining the interpretation of sentence-final forms and modal expressions like ‘-(eu)l su issda’ and ‘-ya doenda’.
This study adopts Kim (2009)’s phase extension model, proposing that in self-quoted cognitive expressions, phase boundaries extend to SaP, allowing it to probe into embedded clauses. This analysis in offers insights into the syntactic realization of discourse-pragmatic information Korean.