Abstract

Objectives The present study aims to explain the subjectivity and subjectivization of the adverb “Sasil”, analyzing how the meaning of the adverb “Sasil” changes from tis objective meaning to its subjective meaning, and finally forms its pragmatic meaning.
 Methods This study focuses on the objective and subjective usage of the adverb “Sasil” by taking the example sentences in “21st Century Sejong Corpus” as the research object. Through subjectivity and subjectivity theory, the process of strengthening subjectivity of the adverb ‘fact’ was analyzed. With the progress of subjectiveization, we looked at how it changes from the objective role described in the dictionary to the pragmatic use.
 Results The analysis shows that the objective semantics of “Sasil” are generally as follows: 1) Objective comparison and conversion of the former and latter contents, 2) The latter content of “Sasil” makes objective amendments to the former one, 3) The latter content supplements the former one. Situations with speaker subjectivity are generally interpreted as follows: 1) The speaker's subjective assessment of the objective situation, 2) Negative emotions such as dissatisfaction, disagreement and worry are added to the latter content, 3) The function of objective contrast and transformation as the basic meaning disappears and evolves into the subjective extension of the speaker, 4) The objective meaning disappears completely and is used as a pragmatic function of the speaker to maintain the subject.
 Conclusions It can be concluded that with the development of subjectivization, “Sasil” has gradually changed from typical meaning to abstract pragmatic meaning.

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