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Lee, Sungbom. 2012. A Pragmatic Analysis of Defamation and Slanderous Remarks. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 37-2, 401-416. This study is an attempt to explore defamation in the framework of linguistic pragmatics. The focus is laid on various types of defamatory utterances. The recipient's perception of such statements and the speaker's liability on the basis of directness of imputation are investigated from the viewpoints of speech act theory and forensic pragmatics. To this end, two experiments are conducted: an off-line experiment testing the recipient's perception of defamatory statements in varying degrees of directness and an on-line experiment measuring the response time for each type of defamatory statements as well as the recipient's judgment of the speaker's illocutionary intent. The results of the experiments and their correlation are discussed. (Sogang University)