A Study on the Topic-Related Functions and the Speech-Related Functions of the Answer Words Exclamation

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the functions of the Korean answer exclamations ‘eung-ani’, ‘geulae- aniya’, and ‘ne/ye’-aniyo‘ in spoken language. The exclamation ’eung‘, which represents the speaker's positive answer, has all the functions of starting, changing, and ending the topic, while the exclamation ’ani‘, which represents the negative answer, has only the function of changing the topic. About function related to speech strategy, the negative answer exclamation has a speech correction function, while the positive answer exclamation does not. exclamation ‘geulae-aniya’ show a similar pattern to ‘eung-ani’. ‘geulae’ has the functions of starting, changing, and ending the topic, and ‘aniya’ does not. In addition, the utterance correction function only represents by the exclamation ‘aniya’ with negative semantic elements. The exclamation ‘ne/ye-aniyo’ has the same functions of ‘eung-ani’ for starting, changing, ending the subject, paying attention, buying time, and bringing the right to speak. It is used according to the relationship between the speakers. In the case of a negative answer exclamation ‘aniyo’ is not regarded as a discourse mark, unlike ‘ani’, so it does not have a discourse mark function such as starting a topic or paying attention.