Kim, Kyu-hyun. 2017. “Topic Marker -Nun as an Exploratory Device: Shifting Domains for Stance Management in Pursuit of Intersubjectivity“. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 25(2), 29~72. From the conversation-analytic perspective, this paper investigates the interactional import of -nun used in assessment activities. The analysis of naturally-occurring interactions suggests that the domain-shifting function of -nun is closely attuned to shifting, or even reversing, the valence of the speaker's evaluative stance in a way that invokes a hitherto unmentioned domain as grounds for soliciting the interlocutor's agreement/affiliation, expressing partial agreement, or marking oblique disagreement. Often formulated as an overstatement to be retracted and/or as a move to solicit the interlocutor's collaborative uptake through claiming knowledge (or lack thereof), the nun-utterance furnishes the speaker with a resource for obliquely implementing face-threatening actions, pursuing common ground, or upgrading affect. Embodying the speaker's ‘exploratory’ stance, the use of -nun conveys the sense that the speaker is going beyond the ‘appearance’ of the matter at hand (e.g., a sub-domain from which a new generic feature may be drawn and attributed to the referent). This practice, which is further supported by the nun-marked adverbials formulated as a ‘logical guidepost expression’, provides for the basis on which the speaker organizes assessment activities in an other-attentive way, e.g., through upgrading affiliation and downgrading disaffiliation vis-à-vis the interlocutor's prior action, while sustaining his/her baseline stance and epistemic independency.

본 연구는 동시출현단어(co-word) 분석을 이용하여 기술경영 분야의 연구 주제 네트워크를 구축하고, 핵심 연구 주제 및 연구 주제 간 상호연관관계를 도출한다. 동시출현 빈도수의 정규화를 통해 키워드 간 유사성을 도출하여 무방향 네트워크를 분석하는 기존연구들과는 달리 본 연구는 연관규칙분석(association rule)을 통해 키워드 간 신뢰도(confidence)를 도출하여 유방향 네트워크 분석을 수행한다. 2011～2014년 기술경영 분야 9 개 국제 학술지에 게재된 2,456개의 논문의 저자키워드를 대상으로 빈도수 상위 200개 키워드를 추출하고, 주제(THEME), 방법(METHOD), 분야(FIELD)의 세 가지 유형으로 키워드를 분류한다. 각 유형별 일원(one-mode) 네트워크를 구축하여, 함께 많이 연구가 이루어진키워드들을 찾아내고, 핵심 키워드를 도출한다. 또한 두 가지 유형의 키워드 간의 이원(two-mode) 네트워크를 구축하여, 연구 주제별로 함께 많이 활용된 방법 및 대상 분야를 탐색한다. 본 연구 결과는 최근 성숙기에 접어든 기술경영 분야의 연구 흐름 및 지식 구조를 키워드 수준에서 구체적으로 제시함으로써, 기술경영 분야 연구자들의 연구 주제 탐색 및 연구방향 설계에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

This is a case study which examined the topic management behavior of three participants in a cross-cultural con- versation. The research questions were: 1) in what ways was the global topical move structured?; 2) Were there recurrent discourse patterns that implicated topic change? For the study, the participants` talk was recorded, transcribed and analyzed through conversational analysis. In global topic management, the native speaker of English had the most dominant role while the nonnative speakers served as passive recipients. The common topic change indicators in local topic management were questions, pause, and the discourse marker ``so.`` In using these, some differences were observed among the participants, which might be attributable to crosscultural differences or the nonnative speakers` lack of confidence. The pedagogical implications were also discussed.