초록 열기/닫기 버튼
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the use of backchannels among Korean and Chinese speakers according to their social status or the intimacylevel of relationships. In addition, the study aimed to identify the use of backchannels among advanced Chinese learners of Korean to provide educational implications. Thus, a total of 45 participants were recruited, who were then assigned to one of three groups: native Korean speakers (GK, n=15), native Chinese speakers (GC, n=15), and advanced Chinese learners of Korean (KC, n=15). One subject had two conversational partners. The subject received counselling on their paper or career from a professor and talked to a friend about their travel plans or experiences in different sessions. Each session was conducted online (zoom) for 10 min. The results were as follows: (1) The GK group expressed more backchannels than the GC group. (2) The GK and GC groups used backchannels more often when talking to their professors than to their friends. (3) The location and frequency of backchannels used by the GK group were more than twice as high in the middle of the sentence as at the end of the sentence (about 70% vs. 30%). This is presumably because native Korean speakers expand the duration of syllables or intonation at prosodic boundaries, which provides them with more opportunities to insert backchannel expressions during conversations.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
backchannel, listener response discourse marker, Korean education, cross-culture)
