Park, Youngsoon. 2004. Current Trends and Future Prospects of Sociolinguitics Research in Korea. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 12(1). This study aims to review the sociolinguistic research currently going on and to find out the key issues and theoretical arguments in sociolinguistics. Especially studies in socio-historical linguistics by Labov (2001), Trudgill (2002), Eckert (2000), and Milroy and Gorden (2003) are reviewed. These studies deal with gender and social class as the main social variables which lead linguistic changes in progress. They, in particular, suggest that women tend to be the leader of linguistic changes. That is, at the beginning of change, women's favored linguistic form tends to be local and non-standard, but later it becomes the superlocal norm which is different from the standard norm. Several scholars in this field conducted studies examining Korean data; they also found that gender and social class play a central role in linguistic changes. But more in-depth Korean sociolinguistic research is in demand to find out whether linguistic changes in progress in Korean also follow the general pattern proposed by Labov and others.

사회언어학 연구의 현황과 과제
  Abstract
  Ⅰ. 서론
  Ⅱ. 이론소개
  Ⅲ. 국내의 성별과 계층 연구 현황
  Ⅳ. 결론: 앞으로의 과제
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• 박영순(고려대학교)