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This study investigates the use of I think and I don't know as stance-taking markers among Korean speakers of English in English as a lingua franca (ELF) interaction. Previous research on the expressions of stance through I think and I don 7 know constructions has suggested that they differ in ELF and LI English discourse because of the specific nature of the ELF interactional situation in which the speakers' different Lis may evoke ELF-specific patterns of stance-taking (Baumgarten & House, 2010). English in Korea is regarded as the most important foreign language, so Korean society is a proper context for research on ELF. The analysis of / think and / don 7 know and their co-occurrences with syntactic and discourse phenomena in the elicited conversation data shows that their distributions and functional profiles of the two stance-taking devices are similar to those in other ELF discourse. (Kongju National University · Hannam University)
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