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The purpose of this study is to analyze usages and functions of shell nouns and quotation sentences in newspaper articles. The newspaper quotes have functions with factuality, neutrality, expressiveness, expert contribution, personal involvement. If we analyze usages of shell nouns, we can explain the functions of quotation sentences included shell nouns in newspaper articles. The corpus for the study consisted of news articles from <21st century Sejong Project> corpus. It comprises around 250 thousand words. I analyzed the quotation sentences and measured the ratio of frequency of shell nouns. As a result of analysis, the citations of statement are more than the citations of fact and evidence. And quotation sentences with shell nouns have five patterns. Choosing the shell nouns in quotation sentences, the journalists express their evaluation of quoted sentences and their attitude whether they have positive feelings with the quoted statements or not. And ‘-다는 것이다’ has function of periphrasis for declining to assert.
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quotation, shell noun, Newspaper articles, corpus
