신문 보도 기사에 나타나는 ‘풀이하다/되다’의 용법과 기능 분석

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As a way of understanding comments on news events in media discourse, this research explores uses and functions of the phrase phwuli-hata/-toyta ‘paraphrase/be paraphrased’ in newspaper report texts from the perspectives of textlinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and heteroglossia. This study first provides a brief overview of report forms in media discourse. Second, it discusses the morphological properties and literal meanings of phwulitoyta ‘be pharaphrased/explained’, claiming the need to explore the functions of phwulitoyta in media discourse. Third, this study examines textual functions of phwuli-hata/-toyta in newspaper texts in terms of communicative needs, showing that it performs functions such as providing additional information and clarifying prior statements. Fourth, this research analyzes reporting constructions with phwuli-hata/-toyta in terms of heteroglossia, exploring how others’ voices are represented in newspaper articles. This research shows that the functions of phwuli-hata/-toyta in news report articles can be summarized as in the following: (i) providing additional information and explanation for the reported events, (ii) delivering reporters’ subjective comments on the reported events, (iii) providing explanation for the unexpected facts or discrepancy between facts and reports, (iv) displaying reporters’ attitudes such criticism or supports for the reported events, and so on. This study claims that newspaper article texts are mixtures of ‘objective’ reports and the reporter’s comments and others’ voices, represented in the choice of various phrases in constructing the texts. This research also shows that the notion heteroglossia is useful for understanding phwuli-hata/-toyta constructions in newspaper articles.

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