This study aimed to examine emotional modality and the semantic domains of emotional modality in the final ending of the fused form “-go ha” in the Korean language. The study presents an emotional modality educational approach to Korean language e...
This study aimed to examine emotional modality and the semantic domains of emotional modality in the final ending of the fused form “-go ha” in the Korean language. The study presents an emotional modality educational approach to Korean language education. A discourse context is needed for practical Korean spoken language education, and investigating corpus data with a discourse context is necessary to understand the language forms that express emotional modality under specific situations. Therefore, the study analyzes emotional modality appearing at the end of the fused “-go-ha-“ type through discourse analysis, by examining “-dago, -dani, -damyenseo, -danikka,” the declarative, interrogative, imperative, and conjugated forms of request types.
The corpora materials used in the discourse analysis include approximately 15,500,722 phrases from the scripts of 210 TV drama episodes and 415,739 phrases from 30 movies. The results show the speakers' various sub-semantic areas of positive and negative emotions. In the Korean spoken language, the final ending of the fused form of ‘-go ha-’ appears with a high frequency as a language form chosen to express the speaker's emotions. Teaching the Korean language by incorporating it into various discourse situations as a grammar item is necessary for practical Korean spoken language education.