2.1 Politeness
2.1.1 Polite Ending and Confirmation Questions Generally to say about the background about the video, speaker M is a famous singer and speaker F is a famous actress. The conversation was started when they met at the first time. They were unknown each other before; so, the relationship looks like unfamiliar and unfriendly. However, after they had honest talk more and more, they started to be turned in favor of each other and be familiar. By communicating, I can find politeness routines and can apply them to the linguistic strategy. Confirmation question have a politeness and softness from utterance between interviewer and interviewee. Also, confirmation question is essential for conversation when people meet someone at first because it provide keep talking softly and it show enough conversation with people. According to the article “The Structure and Use of Korean Honorifics,” -yo demonstrates that polite and formal ending and it sounds soft to interlocutor. Speaker M uses the polite marker -yo line 1 (“저도 사::이즈 싫어하는것 있어요”) as he ends his verb ‘-있어요.’ Speaker M tends to mark politeness when speaking with speaker F. In response Speaker F say (“아: 그래요”) which is a confirmation question in response to …show more content…
Self-deprecation elicits reaffirmation of seeming lowness. So, trivialization and self-deprecation are used as a politeness strategy in conversation between an interviewer and interviewee. Also, use of self-deprecation elicits a response from the interlocutor. In line 41, speaker M say (“뭐 목도리::뭐 뭐 무슨 케이스”) that speaker M uses (“뭐 뭐 무슨”) and this trivialization demonstrates unimportant for saying. At this point, he wants to talk about the common in red so, speaker M tried to search the word a respectfully. Therefore, it can be said that trivialization is politeness