An Analysis Of Discourse Functions Of Korean’(?)’

This thesis takes "(?)" as the object of study, from euphemism function and measurement function’s point of view it does a deep analysis.First, from the measurement function of "(?)", it can be divided into three aspects. When the speaker is speculating that he can speculate according to direct information, indirect information or internal information. So, this paper compared the confidence level of conjectural content according to different sources of these information. Through these three kinds of source speculation analysis, we can draw a conclusion that the lowest confidence level is from the speculation of the indirect information, the lower confidence level is from the speculation of the direct information, and the highest confidence level is from the speculation of the internal information. The indirect information here points that getting information from news paper, radio broadcast, hearsay, etc Therefore, in order to provide information to the speakers in the form of indirect form. So we recognize that the confidence level of the indirect information is the lowest. The direct information here points that the information which gets from the speakers’cognitive organs. For example, vision, hearing, sense of smell and so on. Although direct information is from the speakers’cognitive organs, according to the speculation of the internal information, we think that the confidence level is still low. Internal information is the information which reasons the gained indirect information and direct information once again in the cognitive domain. So its confidence level is the highest. When the speakers are speculating according to the internal information, he does not have reliable evidence, so he could not be positive about it. But the speculative content is close to reality.Second, as to the euphemism function of "(?)", it is mainly according to judging the responsibility and center nature to analyze. In the aspect of responsibility, the speakers have two kinds of attitude. The first one, as a third party’s attitude. And the second, as amaster’s attitude. When the speakers express euphemism, according to the attitude which the speakers hold, the results are also different. When the speakers hold the third party’s attitude, it hints that the speakers will not be responsible for his words. But when he holds the master’ s attitude, it hints that the speakers will be responsible for his words. In the aspect of judging the center nature, it can be divided into listener center and speaker center. When focus on listener center, the speaker in order to respect the listener. But when take the speakers as center to speak, its euphemism function is not better than when take the listeners as center to speak. Therefore, we can conclude that at this time it does not consider the listeners’reputation.