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Publication details [#60044]
Kim, Mary Shin. 2015. Stancetaking in the face of incongruity in Korean conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 83 : 57–72. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study examines routine Korean speakers' conversational stancetaking when facing absurdities in reality, facts, and expectations, and defines their roles in everyday social interaction. The focus lies on the use of the nominalized negation construction –nun ke ani– (‘It is not the case/fact’). In other contexts than disagreement sequences, it may also be used to insert humor by underlining a fact or reality that is against expectation.