이 글은 초등 사회교과서와 중, 고등학교 역사 교과서의 대몽항쟁 관련 서술을 언어학적 접근 방식으로 분석하였다. 분석한 결과, 학교급별로 행위자의 유형, 행위자와 프로세스 관계 제시 방식이 달랐다. 행위자의 유형은 초등의 경우 다른 학교급에 비해 추상적이고 일반적인 행위자가 제시된 반면 중, 고등학교 역사교과서는 행위자가 구체적 인물부터 집단과 세력 그리고 명사화된 추상적 행위자에 이르기까지 다양하였다. 행위자와 프로세스 관계를 보면, 초등은 행위자와 프로세스 유형이 단일하게 연결되었지만 학년이 올라갈수록 행위자와 연결된 프로세스 유형이 복합적으로 제시되었다. 한편, 시간성과 인과관계를 보여주는 문법 장치는 학교급별 차이가 보이지 않았다. 학생들의 이해 수준을 고려한 서술방식은 행위자의 유형이나 행위자와 프로세스의 관계를 단순화시키는 것보다 시간성이나 인과관계를 문법 장치로 명확하게 보여줄 필요가 있다.

본 연구는 대한제국 칙령 제41호 ‘석도=독도’설의 입증을 시도해 온 기존의 연구 성과들에 추가하여, 한국어는 물론 한국의 방언과 한국말의 한자표기 방식에 관한 지식이 전혀 없거나 익숙치 못한 국제사회의 외국인들에게 ‘석도=독도’임을 보다 쉽게 납득시킬 수 있는 접근방식으로서 이 주제와 관련해서는 국내 처음으로 사회언어학 이론들의 적용을 시도해 보았다. 구체적으로 당시 전라도 또는 경상도, 강원도 출신 울릉도 입도자들의 방언이 오늘 날 독도 명칭에 미친 과정과 관련해서는 사회언어학 분야의 “지역인구 변동과 지역어 변화의 상관성” 이론인 ‘도시 건너뛰기(city-hopping) 이론’을 적용해 보았다. 한편 시기적으로 비슷한 시점에서 ‘석도’ 명칭과 ‘독도’ 명칭이 혼재된 것처럼 보이는 부분에 대해서는 사회 언어학 분야의 “세대교체와 지역어 변화의 상관성” 관련 이론을 적용해 볼 수 있었다. 대한제국 칙령 제41호의 ‘석도(石島)’가 오늘날의 ‘독도(獨島)’임을 사회언어학적 관점에서 규명해 보는 것은 사회언어학 분야의 학술적 기여 뿐만 아니라 한국의 독도영유권 논리강화라는 정책적 기여 측면에서도 매우 의의가 있는 작업일 것이다. 특히 한국의 지역 방언과 음차, 훈차 방식 표기 등에 익숙하지 못한 국제사회의 외국인들을 이해시키고 납득시키는 데 특히 효과적이라는 점에서 독도영유권의 국제적 바른 인식 제고에 매우 중요한 의미가 있다.

Language is a crucial and complex lifelong capacity that is constrained by cognitive aging. Aging is thus regarded to be associated with poor performance particularly in the receptive and expressive language abilities. There are, however, some recent proposals that normal aging impairs specific aspects of language production, while most comprehension abilities remain stable as we age. This paper investigates how cognitive aging affects language performance, focusing on syntactic and semantic processing. Based on the experiments of structure choice and modification, it finds that both the syntactic and semantic systems remain largely stable across the life span and the semantic processing is rather preserved longer with age than the syntactic processing. This finding is consistent with the recent research on the compensatory neural recruitment as we age.

With the expanding wave of globalization, foreign languages have gradually become extremely significant in communication and exchange of information, the ability of using foreign languages has become the essential condition and the primary means to boost the national economy. Therefore, a great upsurge in learning foreign languages has been seen throughout the world, especially learning idiomatic phrases has received serious attention. However, in actual fact, because of the difficulty of idiomatic phrases themselves, yet the comparative research of them has not started extensively. Both of idiomatic phrases and proverbs evolve from the terms we utilize in our daily life. The true meaning of an idiom is not its denotation but the connotation that commonly recognized by the masses. For instance, the idiom ‘국수를 먹다(喝喜酒)’ is difficult for people form other countries to understand because of its hidden language background. In order to learn idiomatic phrases better, it is necessary to study the cause and the development process of them from the source. This thesis will divided the research of idiomatic phrases into four parts, container metaphor, space metaphor, event metonymy and states metonymy from the aspects of linguistics, history, sociality, psychology and cognitive linguistics. Since it is difficult to comprehend idiomatic phrases from their literal meanings, the thesis aims at investigating the cause and the development process of idiomatic phrases from diversified perspectives, and providing reference to the future teaching and research of idiomatic phrases.

The purpose of this study is to present the distinctive writing styles for SNS mobile texts and describe the use of the languages in Korean mobile texts. For the data, we collected emoticons, abbreviations, acronyms, punctuation marks, omitted letters and nonstandard spellings proved to be observable in Korean SNS mobile texts. Nonstandard orthography, emoticons and punctuation marks were much more frequently used by females than by males. A difference by generation was found in text length; generally, texts written by old generations were longer than those by young generations. Especially acronyms, which are written by only consonants, were much more frequent in young generations than in old ones. We have also identified a link between the frequency of nonstandard orthography and age. The younger writers of mobile texts are, the more frequently nonstandard spellings and acronyms are used.

This study aims to show that 2nd person pronouns in English and Korean do not cover the grammatical category only. They show spatio-temporal indications of discourse covering extralinguistic categories such as politeness, respect, intimacy, solidarity, all of them social, pragmatic components. Our study also reveals the fact that both languages have employed honorific/common nominal expressions as a last resort to fill the blank caused by the inappropriateness of the pronoun. Another fact we discovered is that Korean has a more complicated hierarchy for 2nd person pronouns than English does, which is a reflect of strong/weak social hierarchy in both cultures.

이 연구에서는 한국어 듣기 텍스트가 어떻게 구성되어 있는지 살펴보기 위해 대학에서 출간한 네 가지 교재와 방송 시나리오의 일부를 선별하여 주제, 대화자 및 문체를 분석하였다. 이를 통해 한국어 듣기 텍스트에 나타난 사회언어학적 특성과 더불어 텍스트 구성 시 사회언어학적 측면에서 보완해야 할 점에 대해 알아보았다. 다수의 한국어 학습자들이 학문과 취업을 목적으로 한국어를 공부하고 있지만 한국어 교재에는 실제 현장에서 일어나는 대화 상황을 반영하지 못하고 있는 경우가 많다. 학습자들의 듣기 능력 신장을 위해서는 학습자에게 진정성(authenticity) 있는 입력 자료를 제공해야 한다. 이를 위해 학습자에게 제시되는 자료는 문법 형태 중심의 텍스트에서 벗어나 사회언어학적인 특성이 드러나도록 구성할 필요가 있다.

This paper was written in search for the true classical scholar whom Nammyong think is preferable. In accordance with the method of the Text-linguistics, described cohesion, the author analyzed the situationality, intertextuality, and informativity which were shown in Nammyong's poems, and the results were classified into ① situation analysis, ② coherence, ③ the diagram of the synthetical structure, and ④ translation of the poems. The contents were arranged into two parts : ① the desertion of human desires and ② the harmony with the nature and the pleasure of hermit life. The poems and the analysed contents were like these: The themes of 'the desertion of human desires' and 'the harmony with the nature and the pleasure of hermit life' are different, but they are of the same category. This is because the heavenly morals is conserved when the human desires are abandoned, and the harmony with the nature and the pleasure of human morality can be obtained when the heavenly morals are conserved. Nammyong worried for the classical scholars not to cut off the human desires and to flatter themselves in search for the bureaucratic office. He said, if he became dirty because of the human desires, "He would instantly cut open the stomach, take out the dirty things, and flow down them into the river." And also he tried to put these beliefs into practice. He always carried with himself the letters of ‘Piety(敬) and Righteousness(義)', and tried to be pious internally and to be righteous externally. And so Nammyong could succeed in obtaining the harmony with the nature, and could enjoy the pleasure of hermit life.

Larry Dwan Chong. 2000. Linguistic Interactions on Computer-Mediated Communication. Studies in Modern Grammar 22, 215-233. In order to explore the role of production and perception constraints in computer-mediated communication, I review Lindblom`s (1990) Hypo- and Hyper-form theory of phonetic variation and propose a new model of linguistic production in CMC. Netizens use CMC communication as conceptually oral, medially written. The reason to use chat-mode is that it saves time and space (the principle of least effort); here sound, not spelling, is the first thing to be considered. With respect to production in the proposed model, effort is no longer equated with articulatory movement, but rather with the number of keystrokes involved in typing an utterance. The production of hypo- and hyper-forms will vary according to the sender`s estimation of signal-complementary processes and his attempts to compensate for the restricted context.

Kim Woo-Dal. 1998. A Review of Sociolinguistic Explanation about Sex Differences. Studies in Modern Grammar 13, 213-229. This paper briefly reviews what we calling `sociolinguistic explanation`, and proposes that the main explanations advanced that women tend to produce speech closer to the standard in pronunciation than that of men are in terms of sociological factors external to language such as status consciousness or solidarity. And this paper tried to show the explanations most commonly put forward to account for sex-difference findings are presumed to be inadequate, and sociolinguists have not considered the specific conditions of women`s lives. Too little attention has been paid to the places of women in economic and social organisation; too little is known about the nature and values of women`s subcultures, and often this lead to an assumption that `vernacular culture` is a uniform and exclusively masculine phenomenon. This study proposes that differences in women`s and men`s language are regularly associated with changes in language and the changes are toward on the bases of language and social environments which are opened to both sexes on various job opportunities in the advanced society of capitalistic economy.