Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the linguistic mechanisms for the formation of amicable discourses in random oral dialogue corpus in Korean. The four categories of linguistic mechanisms are explored in this paper: (i) interrogative mood markers and honorific Si- markers, (ii) adverbial and predicative modal hedges, (iii) first person pronoun markers Ce(I) and Wuri(we), and (iv) positive response markers Ye(yes) and Ney(yes). The following claims are made in this paper. First, the interrogative mood markers and honorific markers are used for the amicable discourse with the percentage of 0.8% and 0.9%, respectively. Second, the adverbial and predicative modal hedges are most frequently used with the percentage of 5.9%. Third, the 1SUPst/SUP person pronominal markers are used with the percentage of 1.5%. Fourth, the positive response markers are least frequently used mechanism with the percentage of 0.2%. Hence the linguistic mechanisms for amicable discourse are ranked as follows; adverbial and predicative modal hedges the 1SUPst/SUP person pronominal markers interrogative mood markers and honorific Si- markers the positive response markers.
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