TY - JOUR AU - Eckardt, Regine AU - Disselkamp, Gisela PY - 2019/07/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Self-addressed questions and indexicality — The case of Korean JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 23 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2019.v23i1.539 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/539 SP - 383-398 AB - <p>Korean questions are marked as true questions (with final particle <em>ni</em>) or self addressed questions (SAQ, henceforth) (with final <em>na/ka</em>). SAQ are characterized as “uttered in the absence of addressee” in the literature. We argue in favour of a more detailed pragmatic profile, as SAQ can be uttered in the presence of other persons and can contain second person pronouns ‘you’ that refer to&nbsp; these. SAQ in&nbsp; Korean are however incompatible with the performative honorific <em>upni </em>(Jang and Kim, 1998). We propose that Korean refers to contexts with <em>bystanders </em>in addition to <em>speaker </em>and <em>addressee. </em>SAQ require that <em>sp</em>(<em>c</em>)=<em>ad</em>(<em>c</em>), and prohibit <em>upni </em>because the speaker cannot honorify herself. Second person ‘you’ refers to the most salient bystander, which can differ from <em>ad</em>(<em>c</em>) in SAQ. The account extends to theme-setting questions and other data.</p> ER -