Evaluative Devices in Performed Conversational Narratives of Personal Experience in Korean Talk Shows
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2024
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This dissertation examines the most common evaluative devices used in conversational narratives of personal experience featured on Korean talk shows. As a television genre particularly known for featuring the intimate stories of individuals, talk shows serve as an easily accessible site for viewing how narrators contextualize life events while performing a type of self-presentation that indexes certain protagonist prototypes and story arcs. Participants extemporaneously discuss their lived experiences while utilizing multiple tools at the prosodic, lexical, lexicogrammatical, phraseological, discursive, and rhetoric levels to communicate personal stances toward narrated events (i.e. the local “there-and-then” of the storyworld) and beyond (i.e. the global “here-and-now” of the ongoing conversation and the world in general). This involves an intricate interaction between different speaker roles (Koven, 2002, 2012) at three main levels (the character, narrator, and interlocutor) that reflect various perspectives and points in time from which the current storyteller evaluates their own experience. The aforementioned three speaking roles offer different insights while contributing to the overall positioning of the current speaker and the type of story arc they present for appreciation by the audience. While the raw emotions of the moment felt by characters living in the there-and-then context of the storyworld provide a sense of contemporaneous drama and suspense, the slightly removed hindsight offered by the narrator presents the storytelling audience with a more informed perspective based off of retrospection and rumination over past events. Lastly, the interlocutor role promotes dynamic interaction between the main storyteller and their audience as they engage in discursive moves aimed at obtaining greater mutual understanding. These can include emphatic emphasis on the veracity of their accounts, aggressive seeking of agreement, or even hyperbolic language.
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Sociolinguistics, Language, Foreign language education, Discourse analysis, evaluative devices, Korean, Korean talk shows, Narrative analysis, speaker roles
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257 pages
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