Abstract
Korean language has a complicate system of Request Speech Acts which makes a lot of difficulties for foreign students learning Korean. Hence, a study on the realization patterns of Korean Request Speech Acts and how to choose the right pattern become very important. This study aims to examine the uses of Korean Request Speech Acts of Korean female around twenties and thirties by using the Korean drama corpus. And we also investigated the context factors of the patterns of high frequence.We found out that all of the Korean imperative sentences, interrogative sentences, declarative sentences and proposative sentences can be used to express the Request Speech Acts. Also people choose the pattern by the standards of formality, intimacy, authority, gender and (family) relationship. But usually, people use the Request Speech Acts when they talk to close friends in unofficial places.
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