The purpose of this study is to identify perceptions of South Korean activists who have been in contact with North Korean defectors, as well as to identify the characteristics of the voices in the field in comparison to the existing research results coming from academic circles. We conducted an in-depth interview with six South Korean activists who had long interacted with North Korean defectors. The research results are as follows. First, in the field, North Korean defectors’ language was viewed as one of the migrants who had been exposed to various environments rather than a sample of North Korean speech. Second, most informants hesitated to generalize the characteristics of North Korean defectors' speech. Rather, they pointed the speech variations found among North Korean defectors depending on various factors such as class, region of origin, generation, length of stay in South Korea, and age at time of entry. Third, they were wary of generalizing “straightness” as a characteristic of North Korean defectors' speech in recognition of the negative implications of the term. These suggest that there exists some gap between the results of academic circles done regarding North Korean defectors’ speech and language awareness in the field.

본 연구는 일반아동과 청각장애 아동의 말소리 낱말 위치, 조음 방법, 조음 위치에 따른 자음정확도와 음운 변동 반응 특성을 알아보는 것이다. 연구의 대상은 G시에 거주하는 일반 아동 10명과 청각장애 10명의 아동을 선정하여 아동용 한국어 조음 검사를 실시하여 80%의 전체 자음정확도를 기준으로 자음정확도가 높은 집단과 낮은 두 집단으로 나누어 발달적 음운 변동과 비 발달적 음운 변동의 출현율을 비교하였고, 두 집단 간 자음정확도에 따른 발달적 음운 변동과 비 발달적 음운 변동의 차이는 독립 표본 t 검정을 실시하였다. 분석결과, 자음 정확도 비교는 조음 방법 중 마찰음에서 청각장애아동이 일반아동보다 유의하게 높은 정확도를 보였다. 음운 변동 비교에서 일반 아동은 긴장음화에서 유의하게 높은 출현 빈도를 보인 반면 청각장애아동 집단은 긴장음과 대립되는 이완 음화가 높은 출현 빈도를 보였다. 집단 간 음운 변동 비교에서 일반 아동 집단이 비 발달적 음운 변동을 거의 나타내지 않은 반면, 청각장애 아동 집단은 초성 생략, 이완 음화, 성문 음화, 탈 비 음화 등의 비 발달적 음운 변동이 나타났으며, 청각장애아동 집단에서도 자음정확도가 낮은 집단에서 유의하게 높은 빈도로 나타났다.

Kim, Younhee. 2018. “Private Speech and Mutual Engagement in Preschoolers' Playtime Interaction: Talk and Embodiment”. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 26(2), 119~165. Preschoolers' playtime interaction presents a unique context where private speech/self-talk and mutual conversation are co-present as well as within and out-of-(pretend play) frame talk. Preliminary observation of the data from the larger project revealed an overall pattern where the two children would play together and soon one child or both of them wander off to his/her own private speech/play mode, and then mutual engagement is achieved again. The current study examines this phenomenon from a conversation analytic perspective by showing what types of sequential resources are employed by the children to manage the transition. The resources include making an announcement, a noticing comment about the shared environment, repetition, code-switching, and embodied resources such as gaze, postural orientation, and spatial positioning in the play space (Kendon 1990). The transition from mutual conversation to private speech often accompanies transition from reality to pretend play talk, though not exclusively so. Making a meta-pretend play comment and making a reference to the theme of the joint play also served as an effective way to achieve re-engagement. Based on detailed interactional analysis, the study suggests that the playtime interaction of preschoolers affords more self-oriented speech (self-repair, private speech) and is characterized by rather loosened expectation for responsivity while “playing together” takes close orientation to the other child's behavior as they co-ordinate moments of mutual engagement and separate play throughout their co-presence.

『現代漢語詞典』의 해석을 중심으로 ‘快’와 ‘快要’의 의미, 품사, 어법단위를 논의한 결과 ‘快’ 는 어떠한 문맥에 쓰일지라도 ‘움직이는 동작이나 일의 정황이 시간적으로 빠르다’를 의미하는 형용사로 관통되어 주로 술어, 보어, 부사어로 쓰임을 알 수 있었다. 또한 명사로서 ‘성씨’를 의미하기도 한다. 고대에는 ‘捕快’와 ‘馬快’와 같이 명사로서 ‘옛날에 체포하는 부역을 전문적으로 관리하는 것’을 의미하기도 하였다. 고대중국어의 단음절어 ‘快[기쁘다]’의 형태가 현대중국어에서는 비자립형태소로 쓰임도 확인하였다. 『現代漢語詞典』에 부사로 등재된 ‘快要’는 실제 언어 환경에서는 ‘속도가 빠르거나 길을 걷거나 시간이 짧음’을 의미하는 형용사 ‘快 [빠르다]’와 ‘～하기를 원하다’를 의미하는 동사 ‘要’가 연접되어 ‘빨리(곧) ～하려고 하다’의 문맥 의미를 형성한다. ‘快’는 동사나 형용사 술어 이외에도 수량사 술어 앞에도 쓰여 문맥상 ‘빨리(곧)～하려고 하다’라는 문의를 나타냄을 확인하였다. 현대중국어의 실제 언어 환경에서는 수량사 앞에는 ‘快’, 동사술어나 형용사술어 앞에는 ‘快要’가 주로 쓰임도 확인하였다. ‘快 要’는 ‘快[빠르다]’와 ‘要[～하기를 원하다]’ 두 단어의 연접으로 쓰인다고 여긴다.

Part of speech category is a basic task in the study of grammar, and has been considered to be a long-held challenge in grammatical analyses. For the part of speech category in Chinese, an overall consensus has been reached in the academic circles through long years of researches and discussions that ,with semantic criteria basically discarded earlier on, part of speech category in Chinese should be analyzed with functional criteria instead of morphological criteria which are associated with entanglement. While this application of functional criteria seems to solve the difficult problems with the part of speech category in Chinese, it is still open to question whether this application should be viewed as a logical and reasonable approach. Most words in all the languages have the possibility of syntactic combinations, but it is an undeniable fact that there are definitely certain words used in the pragmatic expressions which are rarely subjected to syntactic restrictions. When these words with pragmatic functions are analyzed by the criteria of syntactic functions, they can have no places in the existing part of speech category in Chinese. For instance, words such as “例如、如、比如” in Chinese, which represent the meaning of exemplification, do not fit into any grammatical function of part of speech category. As a new potential for the functions of these words has been presented in the studies which are associated with discourse marks in the Western linguistics circles, The word “例如” in Chinese should be regarded as a discourse mark of exemplification function, and words like “真的、说句实话” as discourse marks which represent facts. These kinds of words should not be analyzed from the perspective of traditional syntactic functions because they obviously represent pragmatic functions. Therefore, part of speech category should be first divided into two classes based on the criteria of grammatical function of words: words with syntactic functions and words with pragmatic functions. Although words with pragmatic functions are greatly outnumbered by words with syntactic functions, they have their own particular grammatical functions and thus should be exclusively studied in accordance with their pragmatic properties, independently from the existing criteria of part of speech category.

This paper discusses the grammatical categories of tense-aspect expressions at a discourse level and how discourse dimensions should be connected with discourse functions. Among many tense-aspect expressions, the paper focuses on the forms ‘-ess-’ and ‘-essess-’, which are complex in a sense that they depict both tense and aspect. The results show that ‘-ess-’ has a total of five discourse functions: ‘statement of past situation,’ ‘reminiscence of past situation,’ ‘objectification of present situation,’ ‘present validation of default result’ and ‘realization of hypothetical result.’ Moreover, ‘-essess-’ represents ‘order of past situations’ and ‘present invalidation of default results.’ Also these discourse functions are related to the discourse elements of ‘topic, information, and speaker.’ The findings of this study explain the characteristics of the discourse function relevant to discourse elements. Ultimately, discourse research on tense-aspect expressions in Korean language education enables understanding of the utterance intention of Korean speakers using tense-aspect grammar. And it provides learners with the basis of using Korean correctly and appropriately.

The studies on Speech Acts of Directives (and the traditional study of Imperative Sentences) of local scholars have achieved some valuable results, including the definition and the inner classification of Speech Acts of Directives based on the speaker’s authority and power, the tone of sentence. However, it is observed that in speech communication, a directive sentence is given by the speaker based on some other influences besides those factors, which is against the former studies. Therefore, there should be a more complicated mechanism in the formation of a speech act of directives, not just formed by an individual factor. This article examines the selection process of the directive speech acts based on the theory of prototypic categories, and take more complicated, organic organized contexts into consideration. The context factors can be divided into constant factors and changeable factors. The combination of the two factors decides the range of selection of directive speech acts and the final form of output of the speech act.

This paper aimed to discuss the operative aspects of politeness from two perspectives (i.e., social duty and intentional strategy) by examining the Korean public perceptions presented within the Korean literature texts. As the Korean social duties for politeness presuppose the recognition of status, the speech and behaviors of superiors and inferiors are distinct and fixed. Thus, the truth is concealed to respect superiors’ status while inferiors are forced to do self-depreciation. In addition, speech and behavior for solidarity and fellowship are considered as ones that inferiors dare not perform to superiors, and instead are replaced by obedience and permission to superiors. The intentional strategies of inferiors to superiors for individual profits run outwardly in parallel with polite behaviors performing social duties. However, when they do not bring any profits, the polite speech and behavior disappears, thus bringing about relative betrayal. On the other hand, the intentional politeness of superiors to inferiors is marked in Korea. It is performed to trade profits with each other and recognized according to a hearer’s subjective perspective and emotion. In this way, Korean politeness in terms of the social norms operates in the boundary between harmony and betrayal.

Kim Eun-hye. 2016. “The new feature of prefinal ending ‘-si-’: Inanimate object honorific marker－Focusing on speech comparison of department stores and local markets－”. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 24(1). 91~113. The aim of this study is to research the new function of Korean honorific prefinal ending ‘-si-’ by field survey as well as to emphasize the need to be discussed this circumstance in Korean education. The object of this study ‘-si-’ is the most representative Korean subject honorific marker. It had been only used to person, but is now also used for inanimate object. Especially, it could be found in luxury service industries such as hotel, department store, and restaurant. Therefore, this language variation can be connected with social class. In order to research the new feature of ‘-si-’, Labov(1966)’s methodology which is modified for this study was applied. Then, dialogues between employees and customers from the department store and local market were collected. In addition, this study surveyed to find out Korean native speakers’ awareness about new feature of ‘-si-’. Thus, this research has significance by finding the new features of ‘-si-’ through field surveys and questionnaires as well as making realistic mention about ‘-si-’ in Korean linguistics.

Speech and language are uniquely human-specific traits that have contributed to humans becoming the predominant species on earth from an evolutionary perspective. Disruptions in human speech and language function may result in diverse disorders, including stuttering, aphasia, articulation disorder, spasmodic dysphonia, verbal dyspraxia, dyslexia, and specific language impairment (SLI). These disorders often cluster within a family, and this clustering strongly supports the hypothesis that genes are involved in human speech and language functions. For several decades, multiple genetic studies, including linkage analysis and genome-wide association studies, were performed in an effort to link a causative gene to each of these disorders, and several genetic studies revealed associations between mutations in specific genes and disorders such as stuttering, verbal dyspraxia, and SLI. One notable genetic discovery came from studies on stuttering in consanguineous Pakistani families; these studies suggested that mutations in lysosomal enzyme-targeting pathway genes (GNPTAB, GNPTG, and NAPGA) are associated with non-syndromic persistent stuttering. Another successful study identified FOXP2 in a Caucasian family affected by verbal dyspraxia. Furthermore, an abnormal ultrasonic vocalization pattern (USV) was observed in knock-in (KI) and humanized mouse models carrying mutations in the FOXP2 gene. Although studies have increased our understanding of the genetic causes of speech and language disorders, these genes can only explain a small fraction of all disorders in patients. In this paper, we summarize recent advances and future challenges in an effort to reveal the genetic causes of speech and language disorders in animal models.

Kang, Nayoung. 2015. “A sociolinguistic study on the structural properties and sociocultural meaning of pun and speech play in Korean young children’s peer talk”. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 23(1). 1~30. This paper examines the use of pun in a Korean preschool classroom from the perspective of sociolinguistic study. The purpose of this research is to describe and analyze how Korean young children learn and speak their peer talk and cultural theme in regard to forms and meaning of pun and speech play. For this study, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork for one year at a Korean preschool, focusing on intensive participant observation of teachers’ and children’s interactions, supplemented by in-depth interviews with teachers and children. Through the analysis of social interactions in classroom, I argue that 1) the structural properties of pun(sound patterns, lexicon, syntax, and pragmatics) and 2) sociocultural and interactional meaning(performance, pun in class, taboo as sexuality and curse) in various forms of everyday talk.

The purpose of this study is to analyze part of speech distribution according to proficiency level in 66 Korean textbooks used in major Korean language institutes. Since the number of Korean learners with instrumental motivation has significantly increased, it becomes a very important issue to evaluate their Korean proficiency levels measured through the official assessment of Korean Proficiency Test (TOPIK). Language teaching is subject to certain target learners, and it is necessary to proceed along with studies on them by considering the utilization of their research results. With regard to the distribution of different parts of speech throughout the proficiency levels, 593,100 nouns accounted for 47.86% of the total, 267,334 verbs accounted for 21.57%, and 108,593 adjectives accounted for 8.76%. Other than these three major parts of speech, those that modify other elements of a sentence show a comparatively high percentage. Although many parts of the textbooks contain dialogues or conversational sentence examples, the percentage of abbreviated words or exclamations that represent the characteristics of the spoken language were not very high.

이 연구는 사례중심대학의 보육교사 양성과정별(유아교육과, 사회복지과, 언어재활과)로 진입동기와 전문성 등 교직관의 차이를 알아보는 연구이다. 이를 위해 보육교사양성과정별로 보육교사직을 지원하는 동기와 재학생들이 생각하는 보육교사직을 질문내용으로 하여 의견을 수집하였다. 또한 이를 위한 분석방법으로 빈도분석, 백분율, 독립2표본, t-검증, One-way ANOVA, Turkey 사후분석 등으로 조사하였다.

It’s well known that the sustainable improvement of China's economy has to focus on fostering domestic consumption; this turns out more meaningful given the fact that foreign demand shrinks and the investment brings more risk. Moreover, China is still and will be experiencing rapid industrialization and urbanization and this makes tremendously increasing demand possible. Both of China Marketing Association and Commerce Economy Association of China aim to understanding the diversity of consumer demand and consumer behavior of Chinese consumer. We also provide consulting service for manufacturing enterprises in innovation, product development, quality control and brand marketing. We believe these are important to meet consumer demand. Moreover, information technology is making on-line shopping more important. We call for more research to understand the change of marketing environment; this matters so much in encouraging consumption and promoting steady and healthy development of consumption in China.

Lee Jee-won. 2014. The Interactional Use of Speaker Head Movements in Direct Reported Speech of Mandarin Chinese. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22(1). This study examines the coordination of talk and head movement in the production of direct reported speech in Mandarin Chinese conversation. Analysis of several instances suggests that in direct reported speech, a speaker's head movement plays a crucial role in the interaction. Speakers employ their head movements to mark the boundaries of reported/original speakers. Speakers turn their heads toward recipients when they convey their stance toward the reported utterance while reproducing it. Recipients are thus able to parse a larger telling into parts that reenact the events and parts that communicate their affective stance. Through the way in which the speakers arrange their head with respect to the recipients, the participants create a public, visible locus for the organization of a collaborative storytelling process.

익명으로 행하여진 표현에 있어서 표현 내용은 물론이고 익명성은 그 자체로 보호할 가치가 있으 며, 이는 온라인 익명표현에 대하여도 마찬가지이 다. 온라인 익명표현의 익명성 보호와 다른 법익들 은 균형을 이루어야 하는바, 이러한 균형은 익명표 현에 대한 이용자정보제공제도에 있어서 절차적인 측면과 정보제공 판단기준이 되는 실체적인 측면 모두에서 구현되어야 한다. 우리나라의 경우 정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보 보호 등에 관한 법률(이하‘정보통신망법’이라 한 다), 전기통신사업법, 저작권법 등을 통하여 이용자 정보제공제도를 규율하고 있다. 현행 온라인 익명 표현에 대한 이용자정보제공제도를 절차적 측면에 서 살펴보면 정보제공 시 사법부의 판단을 받지 않 는다는 점, 제공되는 정보의 주체인 이용자의 의견진술 절차가 없다는 점 등이 문제점으로 판단된다 이용자정보제공의 판단 기준에 대하여 살펴보 면, 미국의 경우 판례상 크게 3가지의 판단 기준이 적용된 것으로 보인다. 우리나라의 경우 온라인 서 비스 제공자가 수사기관의 요청에 따라 이용자의 정보를 제공한 사실에 대해 온라인 서비스 제공자 의 손해배상책임을 인정한 사례에서‘구체적으로 는 침해되는 법익 상호 간의 이익 형량을 통한 위법 성의 정도, 사안의 중대성과 긴급성 등을 종합적으 로 고려하여 개인정보를 제공할 것인지 여부’를 결 정하여야 한다고 판시하여 이익 형량을 통하여 정 보제공 여부를 판단하여야 한다는 입장으로 보이 는 판결이 있다. 그러나 이익 형량을 통하여 정보제 공 여부를 판단하여야 한다는 기준은 불명확하고 명예훼손 등 본안심사 시 이중으로 이익 형량을 거 쳐야 하는 문제점이 있다. 피고 또는 피의자의 신원 을 확보해야만 입증할 수 있는 부분을 제외한 요건 사실 또는 구성요건을 모두 입증하여야만 신원 정 보를 제공하도록 하는 기준이 명확성과 절차적 경 제성 측면에서 더 나은 기준이라고 보인다.

인터넷은 누구에게나 동등하게 자신의 의견을 표현할 수 있는 기회를 제공함으로써 소수의견, 비주류적 의견, 마음에 들지 않는 의견 등도 동등하게 공론의 장에 참여할 수 있게 하였고, 이를 통하여 자아의 형성과 실현, 공동체의 진보, 그리고 민주주의의 양적∙질적 확대를 가능하게 하였다. 반면 종래의 전통적인 매체 환경에서는 예상할 수 없었던 정보전달의 신속성과 그 광범성, 그리고 인터넷 환경의 빠른 보급 속도로 인하여 미처 인터넷을 통한 표현 환경에 관하여 자율적, 윤리적인 규범이 형성되기도 전에 이미 명예훼손, 사생활 침해 등 타인의 권리를 침해하는 폐단이 발생하고 있고 그 피해 또한 심각한 양상으로 나타나고 있다. 이러한 환경 하에서 인터넷에서 이루어지는 표현에 대한 규제는 불가피하다. 그러나 그러한 규제는 곧 헌법상 기본권인 표현의 자유에 대한 제약이 되므로 그 규제의 기준과 방법을 설정함에 있어 인격권과 표현의 자유 사이에서 적절한 균형을 유지하는 방안을 모색하여야 할 것이다. 현행 정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보보호 등에 관한 법률에서 정하고 있는 삭제, 임시조치 등 규제의 기준과 방법은 명확성의 원칙, 과잉금지의 원칙을 고려하면 개선할 필요가 있다고 생각한다. 적법한 표현이 제한되지 않도록 구별 기준을 보다 명확히 해야 하고, 규제 방법도 삭제 또는 시의성을 박탈하는 임시조치의 방법보다는 최소한의 표현 상태를 유지시킬 수 있는‘중간지대’의 운영을 제안한다. 소명은 있으나 불법성이 명백하지 않은 게시물은 영구적 또는 일시적으로 삭제되지 않으며, 중간지대로 이동된다. 이동된 게시물은 경고(불법으로 판단될 수 있고 누구도 재공표할 수 없다)와 함께 접속되고 읽힐 수는 있으나 기술적으로 검색, 복사, 링크 등은 금지된다. 규제해야할 대상의 기준과 규제 절차를 적정하게 정한 후, 규제대상으로 판단되는 표현에 대하여는 그러한 표현행위는 물론 그 재공표 행위에 대하여도 엄격한 규제와 책임을 지우고, 적법한 표현에 대하여는 최대한 그 자유를 보장하여야 할 것이다. 그렇게 함으로써 예측가능성을 높여 위축효과를 줄이고, 서비스제공자로 하여금 신속하게 적정한 규제조치를 취할수 있게 할 것이다.

본 연구는 <소나기>를 연구대상으로 발화행위 이론을 이용하여 다양한 언어 환경에서 나타내는 전형적인 언표내적 행위에 의해서 언표내적 행위의 목표, 지향성, 심리적 태도 이 세 가지 차원에서 소녀와 소년의 대화를 분석해, 소녀와 소년의 심리상태와 성격을 해석하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 제2장에서는 설의 이론을 대해 살펴볼 것이다. 설은 언표내적 행위의 목표, 심리적 태도, 지향성을 언표내적 행위의 분류하는 데에 중요한 기준으로 삼고 있다. 이 기준에 의하여 언표내적 행위를 진술 행위, 지시 행위, 언약 행위, 표출 행위, 선언 행위로 분류한다.제3장에서는 설의 언표내적 행위 분류 기준으로 <소나기>에서의 대화를 분석하고자 한다. 특정된 환경에서의 특정된 언표내적 행위 유형에 속하는 대화문을 분석함과 동시에 각 유형의 대화문수와 백분율을 통계해 보기로 한다.화용론적인 발화행위 분석을 통해서 소설의 주인공인 소년과 소녀의 성격 특징을 발견할 수 있는데 종합하면 다음과 같다.소녀의 지시 행위에 질문이 많고 금지의 심리적 태도를 나타내는 지시 행위도 있다. 표출 행위의 경우에는 소녀의 대화 비중이 소년보다 훨씬 더 높다. 따라서 <소나기>는 외향적이고 도전적이며 호기심이 많은 소녀를 기술하고 있다. 소년의 지시 행위에는 금지의 심리적 태도를 나타내는 것이 없다. 표출 행위의 경우에는 소년의 백분율이 소녀보다 훨씬 낮다. 따라서 <소나기>는 내성적이고 수동적이며 수줍음이 많은 소년을 기술하고 있다.