This paper reports on an investigation of the use of Korean concessives and contrastives based on Sejong corpus (2007), specifically that of most frequently used concessive and contrastive endings. Among the endings identified as concessive and contrastive in the literature, the concordance search revealed that -nuntey, -ciman, -ato, and -(u)na are used most frequently. Based on further thorough examination of meanings of selected sentences from the concordance results, the research demonstrates four main findings. Firstly, the meaning of concession is expressed much more frequently than the meaning of contrast. Secondly, concessive and contrastive endings show different patterns in their use: In terms of the degrees to which the endings are used concessively and contrastively, -ciman is highest, -nundey is lowest, and -una and -ato are in between. Thirdly, based on frequencies and degrees to which the endings are used as concessives and contrastives, -ciman is revealed to be the most frequently used concessive and contrastive ending: The meaning of concession is expressed in the frequency order of -ciman, -ato, -una and -nuntey The meaning of contrast is worded in the frequency order of -ciman, -nuntey, -una and -ato. Fourthly, the use of concessive meaning is most conspicuous in imaginative prose, which is un-informative and free to express the speaker in character, and that of contrastive meaning is comparatively apparent in spoken texts and discernible in news, in both of which the speaker/writer tries to draw the attention of the addressee/audience.
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Abstract I. 머리말 II. 이론적 배경 1. 양보와 대조의 의미관계 2. 분류의 실제 적용 III. 분석 대상 말뭉치와 접속어미 V. 결과 1. 접속어미의 의미기능 분류 2. 결과 및 논의 V. 맺음말 참고문헌