A Comparison of Korean Verbs Expressing Bull Markets Based on Report Types
Dong-Young Lee · Discourse and Cognition · 2010
This paper examines similarities and differences in the use of Korean verbs that convey bullish situations in stock markets on the basis of both the written financial articles transmitted through the medium of newspapers and the spoken financial news delivered through the medium of TVs. These two types of financial reports are similar in that the collocate of some verbs is restricted to just one type, the top four verbs in frequency are identical, and diverse verbs co-occur with the expression indicating a rising level. On the other hand, there are also several differences between the two types of reports in that a verb form containing the honorific verbal ending -supnita appears only in the spoken news, a verb that does not occur at all in the written articles occurs many times in the spoken news, and more diverse verbs and verb forms are used in the written articles than the spoken news. The information about these similarities and differences in the use of verbs in each report type is helpful to the appropriate use of them in relation to the kind of an expression with which they can co-occur and the report type in which they can appear.