Abstract
In this study, the adjacency pair reflected in the Kakao talk mobile messenger of Korean language learners and Korean teachers were analyzed in terms of politeness. In order to do such a task, I set the criteria for dialogue analysis based on the discussion of Birner(2013), Brown(2007), Brown & Levinson(1987), Leech(1983) and Dobson(1975). I then extracted six Kakao talk dialogues and analyzed it qualitatively by restoring the dialogue context through in-depth interviews with dialogue producers. When Korean language learners are talking with teachers with socio-cultural distances, I have tried to interpret the aspect in which the politeness in dialogue is realized, focusing upon what kind of face-saving strategy is used, what is the adjacent pair structure of the conversation, how the cooperative principle is kept. In this paper, I discussed the possibility of face threatening acts to the listener if the conversation is not started and closed properly, focusing on conversation and politeness theory with regard to face-saving strategies, cooperative principle, adjacency pair etc. This is also the result of supporting the existing politeness theory through the analysis of actual concrete phenomenon in this paper.
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