Van Compernolle's Five Levels Of Politeness In Korean Language

Verbal and noun honorific suffixes are the most used politeness strategies in Korean, yet there exists corresponding pronoun to T/V; 너('nuh') is equivalent of 'tu' and 당신('tang-shin') could substitute 'vous'. 당신(‘tang-shin') might be a word that appears more in written texts or that is used in restricted contexts; In a corpus study, it appeared to be most frequently used between married couples, or when addressing a person who is not elder or superior (Yan, 2014). Nevertheless, in many cases it conveys a respectful nuance (고영근, 구본관, 2008). 너('nuh'), on the other hand, is a common word that is used in everyday life, and it exclusively refers to the person who is intimate, equal or subordinate; it definitely is not a word to express courtesy. Korean language has a intricate system of expressing
First, a third person character would be introduced instead of 'you', because in French it should be either 'tu' or 'vous'; it could affect participants' judgement of the situation. Second, there would be a question at the end, to elicit responses from the participants (e.g. 'What would he say?' or 'How does he say?'). There would be 50 questions in total. 25 of them would be target questions (five from each Van Compernolle' degree) and the other 25 would be distracting passages, in order to prevent the participants from recognizing the purpose of this study. Distractors would be equal length and number of sentences which are irrelevant to the test. 50 questions would be divided into two sections, the first section being elicited production task, and the second section being grammaticality judgement and correction task (GJCT). Half of each target questions and distractors would have grammatical error in the response. 25 target questions and 25 distractors would be allocated in each section, in random