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Papers by Hye-Kyung Lee
Linguistic Research, 2014
Lee, Hye-Kyung. 2014. Phraseological patterns of English adjectives and nouns: with reference to ... more Lee, Hye-Kyung. 2014. Phraseological patterns of English adjectives and nouns: with reference to the noun collocates of new, good, old and high in American English. Linguistic Research 31(3), 541-567. This paper explores a corpus-driven approach to studying the phraseological patterns of adjectives and nouns using data and methods from corpus linguistics. The rationale behind this approach is the strong resonance between how the meanings of adjectives have been defined and a major claim proposed in corpus linguistics; the meaning of a lexical item is typically defined both by its inherent lexical content and its relation to any accompanying words. For the analysis, the four most frequent English adjectives and their most recurrent noun collocates were chosen from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (coca.byu.edu/coca). The data are new/book, good/news, old/friend and high/levels. The occurrences of the six different phraseological patterns of each pair were counted and the internal structures of each pattern were examined. Then, the concordance lines containing the two words were analyzed to determine how the words are related semantically and structurally. The analysis reveals that the noun phrase consisting of an adjective and its noun collocate is the canonical form throughout the four collocations. The analysis also finds that the four adjectives differ in terms of their phraseological patterning with the noun collocates. The adjectives new and old are rarely used as predicates when they are selected after friend and book, respectively. On the other hand, good and high are canonically employed to serve the predicative function when they follow news and levels, respectively. The two groups also differ from each other in the way they contrast with their antonyms. The adjectives high and good are frequently employed in a contrastive context with their antonyms low and bad, whereas the adjectives new and old are seldom employed in that way.
Linguistic Research, 2013
Linguistic Research, 2012
Lee, Hye-Kyung. 2012. Linguistic Variations between English News Headlines in the U.S. and Those ... more Lee, Hye-Kyung. 2012. Linguistic Variations between English News Headlines in the U.S. and Those in Korea. Linguistic Research 29(2), 329-350. This paper aims to address the similarities and differences between headlines of English political news in America and those in Korea. Acknowledging the contribution of the previous research towards the understanding of news headlines, the current paper investigates how the composing of news headlines is influenced by and interrelated with extra-linguistic factors such as the consideration of the target audience's knowledge states or interests. For this purpose, two sets of data are collected from major online news sites within both countries and the collected data are classified according to the working criteria, especially in terms of employed structural patterns. The results regarding the comparison of the two sets of headlines reveal that headlines in Korean data employ shorter sentential headlines and a smaller variety of tense/aspect of sentences compared to American English counterparts. It is also discovered that cultural factors such as naming conventions practiced in the linguistic/cultural communities are taken into account. These differences are attributed to the consideration of the target audience's multi-faceted states such as knowledge states, beliefs, or interests. At the same time, the two sets of data show similarities in terms of the variety of structural patterns they deploy.
Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學, 2019
This paper takes a corpus-driven approach to the Korean first person possessive pronoun nay with ... more This paper takes a corpus-driven approach to the Korean first person possessive pronoun nay with reference to its plural counterpart wuli. The examination of the frequent noun collocates of the two pronouns in Sejong Corpus reveals the close connection between nay and inalienable entities as well as persons lower than the speaker. Meanwhile, wuli is strongly coupled with places or organizations alongside persons higher than the speaker. Pragmatic principles account for the difference between the kinship term collocates of the two pronouns, such as Horn’s (1984; 1989) R-principle or Levinson’s (2000) M-principle. The non-prototypical singular use of wuli triggers a pragmatic effect of expressing, for example, affection. The frequent collocation of nay with foreign/loan nouns is a reflection of the tendency that people more interested in social mobility (younger generation and women) are more ready to employ nay rather than the singular wuli and to accept foreign/loan words. The meani...
Lee, Hye-Kyung. (2005). The PA/SN distinction in Korean. Language Research 41(4), 807-827. This p... more Lee, Hye-Kyung. (2005). The PA/SN distinction in Korean. Language Research 41(4), 807-827. This paper explores the so-called P A/SN distinction in Korean and proves that there IS that distinction in Korean. This claim is supported by the fact that the two types of contrastive connection are realized by different kinds of connectives. It is also proved that the relevant connection and connectives are sensitive to different types of implicatures, which is observed in several other languages such as German, Spanish, Japanese and so on. At the same time, this paper demonstrates the versatile nature of the discourse marker kuntey, especially in spoken discourse. In doing so, I support that the discourse marker kuntey has expanded its functions and that it shows differences from similar connectives in other languages.
Lee, Hye-Kyung. Lexical bundles in linguistics textbooks. Linguistic Research 37(1), 121-145. In ... more Lee, Hye-Kyung. Lexical bundles in linguistics textbooks. Linguistic Research 37(1), 121-145. In an attempt to help students in linguistics enhance their reading proficiency, this study identifies a total of 274 threeand four-word lexical bundles drawing on a 1.14-million-word corpus of linguistics textbooks. These bundles were first investigated in terms of their structural properties. Results of the structural analysis showed that NP-based and PP-based bundles accounted for almost 80 % of all bundles, consistent with previous studies showing that professional academic writing contained more intensive use of NPs than student writing (both native and non-native). Functional taxonomy of lexical bundles indicated that a high proportion of lexical bundles had referential functions (84.9%), whereas much less of them were discourse organizers (8.6%) and stance expressions (6.5%). Results of the present study add corroborative evidence to those of previous studies. The current study also ...
Journal of Pragmatics, 2002
This paper discusses the semantic and pragmatic properties of conjunction in English and Korean, ... more This paper discusses the semantic and pragmatic properties of conjunction in English and Korean, suggesting a new typology of connectives. In this new typology, connectives are no longer classified as belonging to one of the two categories of meaning, i.e. conceptual or procedural meaning [Semantic Constraints on Relevance, Blackwell, Oxford, Blakemore, (1987)]. Instead, it is claimed that some connectives, including conjunction, have both conceptual and procedural meaning. This line of argument is represented by means of a scale or cline of meaning over which the various meanings of a connective range from logical connection to inferential meaning. One of the crucial assumptions regarding the cline of meaning is that the further we move in the inferential direction, the more inferencing is needed.
Linguistic Research, 2014
Lee, Hye-Kyung. 2014. Phraseological patterns of English adjectives and nouns: with reference to ... more Lee, Hye-Kyung. 2014. Phraseological patterns of English adjectives and nouns: with reference to the noun collocates of new, good, old and high in American English. Linguistic Research 31(3), 541-567. This paper explores a corpus-driven approach to studying the phraseological patterns of adjectives and nouns using data and methods from corpus linguistics. The rationale behind this approach is the strong resonance between how the meanings of adjectives have been defined and a major claim proposed in corpus linguistics; the meaning of a lexical item is typically defined both by its inherent lexical content and its relation to any accompanying words. For the analysis, the four most frequent English adjectives and their most recurrent noun collocates were chosen from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (coca.byu.edu/coca). The data are new/book, good/news, old/friend and high/levels. The occurrences of the six different phraseological patterns of each pair were counted and the internal structures of each pattern were examined. Then, the concordance lines containing the two words were analyzed to determine how the words are related semantically and structurally. The analysis reveals that the noun phrase consisting of an adjective and its noun collocate is the canonical form throughout the four collocations. The analysis also finds that the four adjectives differ in terms of their phraseological patterning with the noun collocates. The adjectives new and old are rarely used as predicates when they are selected after friend and book, respectively. On the other hand, good and high are canonically employed to serve the predicative function when they follow news and levels, respectively. The two groups also differ from each other in the way they contrast with their antonyms. The adjectives high and good are frequently employed in a contrastive context with their antonyms low and bad, whereas the adjectives new and old are seldom employed in that way.
Linguistic Research, 2013
Linguistic Research, 2012
Lee, Hye-Kyung. 2012. Linguistic Variations between English News Headlines in the U.S. and Those ... more Lee, Hye-Kyung. 2012. Linguistic Variations between English News Headlines in the U.S. and Those in Korea. Linguistic Research 29(2), 329-350. This paper aims to address the similarities and differences between headlines of English political news in America and those in Korea. Acknowledging the contribution of the previous research towards the understanding of news headlines, the current paper investigates how the composing of news headlines is influenced by and interrelated with extra-linguistic factors such as the consideration of the target audience's knowledge states or interests. For this purpose, two sets of data are collected from major online news sites within both countries and the collected data are classified according to the working criteria, especially in terms of employed structural patterns. The results regarding the comparison of the two sets of headlines reveal that headlines in Korean data employ shorter sentential headlines and a smaller variety of tense/aspect of sentences compared to American English counterparts. It is also discovered that cultural factors such as naming conventions practiced in the linguistic/cultural communities are taken into account. These differences are attributed to the consideration of the target audience's multi-faceted states such as knowledge states, beliefs, or interests. At the same time, the two sets of data show similarities in terms of the variety of structural patterns they deploy.
Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學, 2019
This paper takes a corpus-driven approach to the Korean first person possessive pronoun nay with ... more This paper takes a corpus-driven approach to the Korean first person possessive pronoun nay with reference to its plural counterpart wuli. The examination of the frequent noun collocates of the two pronouns in Sejong Corpus reveals the close connection between nay and inalienable entities as well as persons lower than the speaker. Meanwhile, wuli is strongly coupled with places or organizations alongside persons higher than the speaker. Pragmatic principles account for the difference between the kinship term collocates of the two pronouns, such as Horn’s (1984; 1989) R-principle or Levinson’s (2000) M-principle. The non-prototypical singular use of wuli triggers a pragmatic effect of expressing, for example, affection. The frequent collocation of nay with foreign/loan nouns is a reflection of the tendency that people more interested in social mobility (younger generation and women) are more ready to employ nay rather than the singular wuli and to accept foreign/loan words. The meani...
Lee, Hye-Kyung. (2005). The PA/SN distinction in Korean. Language Research 41(4), 807-827. This p... more Lee, Hye-Kyung. (2005). The PA/SN distinction in Korean. Language Research 41(4), 807-827. This paper explores the so-called P A/SN distinction in Korean and proves that there IS that distinction in Korean. This claim is supported by the fact that the two types of contrastive connection are realized by different kinds of connectives. It is also proved that the relevant connection and connectives are sensitive to different types of implicatures, which is observed in several other languages such as German, Spanish, Japanese and so on. At the same time, this paper demonstrates the versatile nature of the discourse marker kuntey, especially in spoken discourse. In doing so, I support that the discourse marker kuntey has expanded its functions and that it shows differences from similar connectives in other languages.
Lee, Hye-Kyung. Lexical bundles in linguistics textbooks. Linguistic Research 37(1), 121-145. In ... more Lee, Hye-Kyung. Lexical bundles in linguistics textbooks. Linguistic Research 37(1), 121-145. In an attempt to help students in linguistics enhance their reading proficiency, this study identifies a total of 274 threeand four-word lexical bundles drawing on a 1.14-million-word corpus of linguistics textbooks. These bundles were first investigated in terms of their structural properties. Results of the structural analysis showed that NP-based and PP-based bundles accounted for almost 80 % of all bundles, consistent with previous studies showing that professional academic writing contained more intensive use of NPs than student writing (both native and non-native). Functional taxonomy of lexical bundles indicated that a high proportion of lexical bundles had referential functions (84.9%), whereas much less of them were discourse organizers (8.6%) and stance expressions (6.5%). Results of the present study add corroborative evidence to those of previous studies. The current study also ...
Journal of Pragmatics, 2002
This paper discusses the semantic and pragmatic properties of conjunction in English and Korean, ... more This paper discusses the semantic and pragmatic properties of conjunction in English and Korean, suggesting a new typology of connectives. In this new typology, connectives are no longer classified as belonging to one of the two categories of meaning, i.e. conceptual or procedural meaning [Semantic Constraints on Relevance, Blackwell, Oxford, Blakemore, (1987)]. Instead, it is claimed that some connectives, including conjunction, have both conceptual and procedural meaning. This line of argument is represented by means of a scale or cline of meaning over which the various meanings of a connective range from logical connection to inferential meaning. One of the crucial assumptions regarding the cline of meaning is that the further we move in the inferential direction, the more inferencing is needed.