This study aims to explored changes in vocabulary use in Jeongamchon, which was founded by immigrants from Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea, in China. The data were collected from the first generation of Chungcheongbuk-do and Jeongamchon immigrants as well as the second generation of Jeongamchon immigrants. The data were divided into eight categories. The Jeongamchon community preserved a considerable number of dialects from Chungcheongbuk-do but also showed the transition of words into Chinese Korean. Examples of Chungcheongbuk-do dialect words that are highly conserved in Jeongamchon include words frequently used in daily life such as words about the human body and titles for relatives and family members. In contrast, words from Chungcheongbuk-do dialects indicating entities that do not exist in Jeongamchon, which can be attributed to differences in geographical environments or sociocultural differences between Chungcheongbuk-do and Jeongamchon, were at the verge of extinction. The indigenous vocabulary items in Jeongamchon, which refer to objects reflecting sociocultural differences from Chungcheongbuk-do, were substituted into the Chinese-Korean dialect, reflecting local culture.

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of machine translation by Uzbek-speaking Korean learners, focusing on their usage patterns, attitudes, perceptions, and expectations, as well as identifying the educational implications of using machine translation. An online survey, lasting two weeks, involved 85 Korean language learners from universities in Korea and Uzbekistan. The main findings indicated a high reliance on machine translation for Korean language learning, with the majority of respondents using machine translations to find accurate vocabulary and expressions. Regarding their attitudes towards machine translation, learners mainly utilized it for literal communication, reading, and writing, and were generally satisfied with them, especially as tools for learning spellings and pronunciations. The use of machine translation significantly influenced learners’ confidence, interest in learning, and anxiety reduction. In terms of perception, learners found machine translation effective for learning Korean vocabulary, expressions, and writing, but also perceived machine translators as sources of stress and anxiety. Expectations for using machine translation were high for completing tasks in vocabulary, expression, and writing, but low for improving grammar skills and producing error-free Korean expressions.

본 연구는 관형격 명사구 구성 ‘명사+ 의+ 명사’에서 선행 성분과 후 행 성분을 연결을 시키는 ‘의’는 단순한 수의적 실현 경우에서 특히 통사 적 실현 가능성에 대한 논의를 하고자 하는 목적이 있다. 특히 수의적 경우에서 나타난 ‘의’ 생략 실현 양상을 검토하고자 할 것이다. 본 연구 는 먼저 기저 구조에 들어가 문장에서 서술어와 논항을 연결하는 관계 즉, 연합성 관계를 통해, ‘의’가 속한 관형격 명사구가 서술어와의 연합 성 정도에 따라서 1차 서술어적 관형격 명사구와 2차 서술어적 관형격 명사구로 나뉜다. 다음은 관형격 명사구가 표면구조에서 벗어나서 심층 구조에 변형하며 ‘NP1+ 의+ NP2’는 총 아홉 가지로 분류한다. 그리고 관형격 명사구가 통사적 기저문장 변형에서 유형과 양상을 검토하며 통 사적 수의적 경우는 네 가지, 의미적 수의적 경우는 네 가지로 나뉜다. 이런 분류를 통해 순수한 관형격 조사 ‘의’가 수의적 실현 경우에서 생략 의 형상을 자세히 볼 수 있는 연구 성과를 얻을 수 있다. 그리고 하나의 문장에서, 화자의 직관과 명사구 사용 상황에 따라 ‘의’가 강한 수의성 (possessiveness)을 나타내는 경우가 흔하다. 이러한 강한 수의성을 갖 는 ‘의’는 문장 내에서 기저 구조를 분석을 통해 ‘의’를 더 깊이 이해할 수 있다는 의미가 있다.

The present study examines English loanwords appearing in a Korean television drama, Start-up, to understand how English is incorporated into Korean discourse in the settings of everyday life. Data analysis revealed that the drama contains a relatively high number of English loanwords presumably due to the protagonists' young age and the tech-based start-ups that it features. One of the distinct characteristics of English loanwords in their forms is the extensive use of ‘English-hada’ words and other types of words combining Korean and English elements. In addition, the use of English often extends beyond the word level to phrases or even sentences. The functions of English loanwords in the drama were found to fill a lexical gap in the Korean language, strengthen the sense of belonging and bonding among the members of a particular generation or group, create a humorous atmosphere, and symbolize professional competence and thus an elevated level of the speakers' social status.

To clarify the concepts of dialects, vernacular and regional languages used with similar meanings, this study attempted to reveal the usage patterns and concepts of these expressions based on written corpus. The written corpus of printed newspaper articles from the online Naver News Library that archived newspaper articles from 1920 to 1999 and the news article corpus crawled by the online Naver News portal from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2021 were extracted and analyzed. In particular, this paper analyzed the relationship between collates and keywords based on the corpus linguistic research methodology of the news article corpus for the past eighteen years and how they were being used in official records and press documents by corresponding with the 'dialects, vernacular, and regional languages' in socio-linguistic terms of modern Korean. The results are summarized as follows. First, the concept of linguistic norms that a dialects have terms corresponding to the words or standard languages was established after the 1930s. Second, in the library of newspaper articles published in the 20th century, dialects or vernaculars were perceived as negative objects to be removed in preparation for standard language. Third, it can be seen that the positive value judgment on 'vernacular' has increased in the corpus of news articles over the past decade. Fourth, dialects and vernacular, regional language, and standard language were used to be compatible with each other, and it can been seen that dialects were mainly used in academic contexts and vernacular were mainly used in everyday contexts. Fifth, it can be confirmed that the positive perception of standard language has been maintained in the 20th-century newspaper article corpus and the 21st-century news article corpus for the last eighteen years after the recognition of standard language.

This paper analyses various types of unethical expressions and distribution features in both large-scale broadcasting corpus and messenger corpus. The use of these unethical expressions appear to vary considerably depending on the register. As such, annotations for de-identification should be based on a register-specific approach rather than a general one. The results of the study can be summarized as follows. First, unethical expressions are categorized into four types: 'swearing expressions, hate speech, aggressive expressions, and sexual expressions.' Second, the quantitative analysis shows that the amount of unethical expressions in messenger is much higher than in broadcasting. Third, the proportion of [+person] expressions is very high in broadcast conversations, while swearing expressions account for more than 90% of the unethical expressions in the messenger corpus. Our study suggests that register variation, contextual information and language categories beyond word unit need to be reconsidered to detect unethical expressions.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the usage of address terms for professors by undergraduate and graduate students by the sociolinguistic methodology. To this end, this paper applied an integrated approach that combines quantitative analysis based on the response results of multiple-choice questions in the survey and qualitative interpretation based on the response results of subjective questions in both the survey and the in-depth interview. First, through quantitative analysis of the variation in the use of address terms, it was confirmed that “professor” occupies an overwhelming proportion and that the academic field of the speaker is the most important factor. The higher the intimacy with professors, the more “teacher” was used. Next, through the qualitative interpretation of the reason and meaning of using their choice of address terms, the most basic and superficial reason was to follow the experiences and customs in the affiliated community. The use of “professor” had some reasons or meanings such as meeting courtesy and expectations, highlighting privileged status, and equal respect for all the faculty members, whereas “teacher” was used as an expression of intimacy.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the term ‘agassi’ by analyzing the pattern of actual language use of it in the aspect of sociolinguistic perspective. Through this work, it will be possible to figure out the change of meaning of the ‘agassi’, and the causes of conflict situations of using it in modern society. In chapter 2, the difference between ‘agassi’ as an address term and as a reference term is represented. Chapter 3 shows the chronicle change in the use of ‘agassi’ being originated from its etymology, ‘agissi’. It turns out that the use of ‘agassi’ has evolved for in the order of Honorific form, kinship and Non-Honorific form. Chapter 4 investigates the tendency and its cause of the negative interpretation of ‘agassi’ in modern society. The reason why the address term ‘agassi’ causes social displeasure is because it is regarded as ‘sexual objectification’. It can be subdivided into three categories: ‘agassi’ is (1) the expression that emphasis sex in social life, (2) associated with specific occupational groups which is socially unacceptable, and (3) used often in the situation of sexual harassment.

In this study, a researcher transcribed Korean negation sentences presented on four episodes of the [Love of 7.7 Billion] and analyzed the discourses of foreign panel members by focusing on Korean negation sentences. The aims of this study are to (1) analyze types and accuracy of Korean negation sentences in foreign panel members’ discourse and (2) present pedagogical implications for efficient Korean education on negation sentences. This study was launched as an attempt to analyze how correctly and variously foreign panel members in the program use Korean negation sentences in their discourse. Since discourse is closely related to the ordinary life of humans, discourses which appeared on the [Love of 7.7 Billion] would be suitable data to analyze since it is a discussion-based program. Therefore, discourse is useful from a pedagogical standpoint to look into the Korean language proficiency of them. Through discourse analysis, several implications were found. (1) foreign panels tended to use short negation sentences rather than long negation sentences; (2) panels’ use of Korean negation sentences was not various; (3) panels divided Korean negation sentences into often-used negation sentences and rarely-used negation sentences; (4) the use of negative polarity was not found that much.

Reform and opening-up in China brought rapid changes in the society of ethnic Koreans in China. And those changes caused following changes in language identity and language attitude of those ethnic Koreans that eventually led to change in their language use. The present study investigates relation between changes in language identity and language attitude and their language use. The rates that Ethnic Koreans living in Jilin, China consider their mother language to be Korean(Joseon language, South Korean language and North Korean language) are different by their generations. Middle aged and older people tend more to consider Korean as their mother language compared to younger generation. Those two generations, however, showed opposed opinions about the future language they will use. More of older generation predicted that Korean will be rarely used among ethnic Koreans living in China in the future compared to younger generation. The difference of language identity and the attitude to the language across generations was reflected in their actual language use. Older generations use Korean in general.They may borrow Chinese words when they can’t come up with appropriate Korean words or sometimes show code mixing by using Chinese words and sentences while speaking in Korean. In generations younger than middle age, code mixing and code switching are more frequently observed when their conversation topics are Chinese politics and Chinese cultures. The youngest generation mainly uses Chinese and showed code switching most frequently among all generations. The language use observed differently among the generations is reflection of changes in language identity and language attitude.

목 적：MRCP검사시 CS SPACE breath-hold기법을 사용하여 조영전과 Gd-EOB- DTPA 사용후 영상을 시간대별로 획 득하여 영상의 변화를 통해 담즙의 변화를 알아보고, 이를 바탕으로 3D T2강조 자기공명 담췌관 조영영상의 적절한 획득시기를 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법：2017년 11월부터 2018년 1월까지 본원에 내원하여 Gd-EOB-DTPA를 사용하여 MRCP검사를 시행한 42 명을 대상으로 하였고 장비는 SIEMENS사의 Magnetom Skyra 3.0T를 사용하였다. Compressed Sensing SPACE breath-hold 기법으로 조영전과 Gd-EOB-DTPA를 사용한 역동적 조영검사 후 delay 4m, 6m, 8m 때의 3D T2강조 자기공명 담췌관 조영영상을 MIP기법을 사용하여 영상을 재구성한 뒤, RHD, LHD, CBD의 SNR과 CNR을 측정하였고, 정성적 평가는 조영전과 Gd-EOB-DTPA사용후 delay 4m, 6m, 8m때의 RHD, LHD, CBD를 복부전문 영상의학과 전문의 1명과 10년 이상 경력의 MRI전문 방사선사 1명이 5점 척도로 평가하였다. 결 과：조영전 RHD, LHD, CBD의 평균 SNR은 33.07, 32.18, 38.43 였고, Gd-EOB-DTPA사용후 delay 4m때의 평균 SNR은 38.1, 36.33, 43.16, delay 6m때는 37.79, 37.67, 44.46, delay 8m때는 30.24, 35.29, 41.45였다. CNR은 조영전이 평균 22.27, 21.36, 27.59, Gd-EOB-DTPA사용후 delay 4m때는 27.1, 25.32, 32.12, delay 6m때는 26.81, 26.71, 33.41, delay 8m때는 19.14, 24.21, 30.28 였다. delay 8m때의 RHD의 SNR과 CNR만 조영전과 비교해서 통계 적으로 유의하지 않았으며(p>0.05) 나머지는 통계적으로 유의했다(p<0.05). SNR과 CNR이 조영전부터 delay 8m때까지 순차적으로 계속 증가하는 경우는 전체의 47.6%였고, 조영전보다 delay 6m때의 SNR과 CNR이 더 높지만 delay 8m때 감소하는 경우가 전체의 40.5%, 조영전보다 delay 4m때의 SNR과 CNR이 더 높지만 delay 6m, 8m때 감소하는 경우는 전체의 11.9%였다. 정성적 평가는 조영전 RHD, LHD, CBD의 평균점수가 4.48, 4.55, 4.93였고, Gd-EOB-DTPA사용 후 delay 4m때는 4.48, 4.55, 4.86, delay 6m때는 4.12, 4.5, 4.88, delay 8m때는 3.55, 4.1, 4.64 였다. 조영전과 delay 4m은 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 없었고(p<0.05), 조영전과 delay 6m은 RHD만, 조영전과 delay 8m은 RHD, LHD 가 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p>0.05). 결 론：조영전과 Gd-EOB-DTPA사용후 delay 4m때의 영상의 진단적 차이가 없었으며, delay 4m때가 SNR과 CNR이 더 높았기 때문에 delay 4m때 breath-hold 3D T2강조 자기공명 담췌관 조영영상을 얻는것이 검사시간도 단축하고 더 좋은 영상을 얻을 수 있을겄으로 생각되며, 담췌관에 질병이 의심되는 환자에서 respiratory-triggered 3D T2강조 자기공 명 담췌관 조영영상은 역동적 조영검사 후에 바로 시행하여 delay 6m전에 검사를 획득한다면 담도배설이 시작되기 전에 영상을 획득하거나 담도배설이 어느정도 시작되었어도 높은 신호때부터 영상이 얻어졌기 때문에 조영전과 영상의 차이가 없고 시간을 많이 단축하는 방법이 될거라 생각된다.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the usage of address terms between professors in a Korean university upon the methodology of sociolinguistic variation studies. This study was conducted based on on-line questionnaire survey targeting 100 professors in an university situated in the metropolitan area. Address terms observed in this study are Gyosu(=professor)(+honorific ‘-nim), Seonsaeng(=teacher)(+’-nim’), Baksa(=doctor)(+‘-nim’), Saem/Ssaem(intimate abbreviation of Seonsaeng), etc. which are ordered by frequency. Factor groups considered in this study are addressor, addressee, and situation. The main results of this study are as in the following. (1) Addresser’s academic field, degree of intimacy relation with addressee, and addressee’s administrative position are main factors having influence on the usage of address terms between professors. (2) Addresser’s sex and age factors and addressee’s sex and academic field factors have little or no influence on the usage of address terms.

목 적：MRCP검사시 CS SPACE breath-hold기법을 사용하여 조영전과 Gd-EOB- DTPA 사용후 영상을 시 간대별로 획득하여 영상의 변화를 통해 담즙의 변화를 알아보고, 이를 바탕으로 3D T2강조 자기공명 담췌관 조영영상의 적절한 획득시기를 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법：2017년 11월부터 2018년 1월까지 본원에 내원하여 Gd-EOB-DTPA를 사용하여 MRCP검사를 시행한 42명을 대상으로 하였고 장비는 SIEMENS사의 Magnetom Skyra 3.0T를 사용하였다. Compressed Sensing SPACE breath-hold 기법으로 조영전과 Gd-EOB-DTPA를 사용한 역동적 조 영검사 후 delay 4m, 6m, 8m 때의 3D T2강조 자기공명 담췌관 조영영상을 MIP기법을 사용하여 영상 을 재구성한 뒤, RHD, LHD, CBD의 SNR과 CNR을 측정하였고, 정성적 평가는 조영전과 Gd-EOB-DTPA사용후 delay 4m, 6m, 8m때의 RHD, LHD, CBD를 복부전문 영상의학과 전문의 1명과 10년 이상 경력의 MRI전문 방사선사 1명이 5점 척도로 평가하였다. 결 과：조영전 RHD, LHD, CBD의 평균 SNR은 33.07, 32.18, 38.43 였고, Gd-EOB-DTPA사용후 delay 4m때의 평균 SNR은 38.1, 36.33, 43.16, delay 6m때는 37.79, 37.67, 44.46, delay 8m때는 30.24, 35.29, 41.45였다. CNR은 조영전이 평균 22.27, 21.36, 27.59, Gd-EOB-DTPA 사용후 delay 4m때는 27.1, 25.32, 32.12, delay 6m때는 26.81, 26.71, 33.41, delay 8m때는 19.14, 24.21, 30.28 였다. delay 8m때의 RHD의 SNR과 CNR만 조영전과 비교해서 통계적으로 유의하지 않았으며(p>0.05) 나머지는 통계적으로 유의했다(p<0.05). SNR과 CNR이 조영전부터 delay 8m때까지 순차적으로 계속 증가하는 경우는 전체의 47.6%였고, 조영전보다 delay 6m때의 SNR과 CNR이 더 높 지만 delay 8m때 감소하는경우가 전체의 40.5%, 조영전보다 delay 4m때의 SNR과 CNR이 더 높지만 delay 6m, 8m때 감소하는경우는 전체의 11.9%였다. 정성적 평가는 조영전 RHD, LHD, CBD의 평균 점수가 4.48, 4.55, 4.93였고, Gd-EOB-DTPA사용후 delay 4m때는 4.48, 4.55, 4.86, delay 6m때 는 4.12, 4.5, 4.88, delay 8m때는 3.55, 4.1, 4.64 였다. 조영전과 delay 4m은 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 없었고(p<0.05), 조영전과 delay 6m은 RHD만, 조영전과 delay 8m은 RHD, LHD가 통계적으 로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p>0.05). 결 론：조영전과 Gd-EOB-DTPA사용후 delay 4m때의 영상의 진단적 차이가 없었으며, delay 4m때가 SNR 과 CNR이 더 높았기 때문에 delay 4m때 breath-hold 3D T2강조 자기공명 담췌관 조영영상을 얻는것 이 검사시간도 단축하고 더 좋은 영상을 얻을 수 있을겄으로 생각되며, 담췌관에 질병이 의심되는 환자에 서 respiratory-triggered 3D T2강조 자기공명 담췌관 조영영상은 역동적 조영검사 후에 바로 시행하 여 delay 6m전에 검사를 획득한다면 담도배설이 시작되기 전에 영상을 획득하거나 담도배설이 어느정도 시작되었어도 높은 신호때부터 영상이 얻어졌기 때문에 조영전과 영상의 차이가 없고 시간을 많이 단축 하는 방법이 될거라 생각된다.

The present study explored usage patterns of English coordinating conjunctions(CCs) in Korean EFL learners' and native English speakers' written corpus. Focusing on the morpho-syntactic use and cohesive functions of and, but, or and so as focal examples in academic prose, both quantitative and qualitative analyses were employed. Findings from the quantitative analysis of the opinion essays showed that both groups used and most frequently, which is used mostly in word/phrase levels rather than in clause levels. On the other hand, so is especially used as a clause-level CC. Because or and and used most frequently in word/phrase levels are recognized easily as CCs, they rarely appear in a sentence-initial position. By contrast, so and but used more often in a clause level appear in a sentence-initial position more frequently, which may lead L2 learners to confuse CCs with connective adverbials(CAs). Based on the Subset Principle, it may be interpreted that morpho-syntactic properties on CAs in Korean transfer to those on English CCs due to the morpho-lexical difference of CCs between the two languages. However, this study reveals that the L1 transfer seems to gradually retreat at an intermediate level where L2 learners start to perceive the registers of academic prose.

This research investigated various aspects of language learning strategies used by undergraduate and graduate students studying Korean. The study focused on four language skills, pronunciation, and vocabulary. The survey was conducted on 322 participants, Korean learners both in Korea and in other countries. It examined the usage of learning strategies used by the learners including the following variables: gender, experiences of living in Korea, first languages, and the countries Korean was learned. The quantitative data from the survey were analyzed by univariate ANOVAs to find out which skill is significant among the variables and the findings are as follows: 1) The greatest frequency of learning strategies appeared in the order of listening, pronunciation, writing, speaking, vocabulary, and reading. Listening skill showed the most varied learning strategies. 2) The analysis of learning strategies according to the variables with respect to the language skills revealed that gender influenced listening, the experience of the target country influenced reading, and the first language influenced writing. Pedagogical implications and further research suggestions are discussed.

Lee, Jee Won. 2017. “The Use and Discourse-Pragmatic Function of wo buzhidao in Naturally Occurring Mandarin Chinese Conversation”. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 25(1). 167~192. This study investigates several aspects of Chinese (wo) buzhidao using both qualitative and quantitative methods, including its distributional properties and discourse-pragmatic functions in conversational contexts. This study has found that (wo) buzhidao occurs in conversational environments other than in reply to information questions and carries more interactive and social implications than had been previously proposed by previous studies. First, (wo) buzhidao marks the speaker’s uncertainty and concerns about the truth of the proposition expressed. Second, (wo) buzhidao constructs the speaker’s neutral position by disattending opinions, assessments, or troubles. Third, (wo) buzhidao avoids an explicit disagreement. The use of (wo) buzhidao as a stance marker allows the speaker to convey his/her consideration for the hearer’s face, and it can help to achieve a range of interactional goals. Native speakers of Mandarin Chinese employ (wo) buzhidao in conjunction with other interactive strategies to organize their speech via their recipient enabling mutual intersubjectivity.

This study aims to analyze the aspect of coherence realization of narrative discourse of female marriage immigrants. Considering that discourse structure and cohesive devices are engaged in the coherence of discourse, this study attempts to examine the aspect of structure development of narrative discourse and the utilization of reference and conjunction. The participants in the study are intermediate and advanced-level female marriage immigrants. The analysis results of this study can be summarized as follows: (1) the female marriage immigrants selectively contained [abstract] and [evaluation] while essentially containing [setting], [complicating action], [resolution] when comprising narratives; the coherence of discourse was found to be disrupted due to insertion of extraneous contents, lack of information, excess of information, or delaying of the introduction utterances; (2) the use of cohesive devices was concentrated in a particular expression. Suggestions based on the findings of the study are provided.

This study investigated how Korean EFL students’ self-directed English learning abilities, learning strategy use, and the relationship between the two constructs change as they advance to upper level schools. Data were collected from 447 elementary, middle, and high school students in Seocho-gu, Seoul, using Self-Directed Language Learning Readiness (SDDLR) and a revised version of Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). The results showed that elementary school students’ SDDLR and SILL scores were significantly higher than those of middle and high school students, with no significant difference between the two groups. Among the learner factors, interest toward English study was the only factor which affected all the three groups’ SDDLR as well as SILL scores. The influence of study-abroad experience and starting age of private education was limited to the elementary school student group, indicating their short-lived effects on self-directed learning and strategy use. Lastly, there was a high or moderately high positive correlation between SDDLR and SILL in all the three groups. However, the specific relationship among subcategories of the two constructs was complicated and different among the three groups.

The purpose of this study is to analyze usages and functions of quotation sentences and quotation verbs in newspaper texts. The newspaper quotes have the functions of factuality, neutrality, expressiveness, expert contribution, and personal involvement. If we analyze usages of quotation verbs, we can explain the functions of quotation sentences in newspaper texts. The corpus for the study consisted of newspaper texts from '21st Century Sejong Project' corpus. It comprises around 250,000 words in newspaper reports and around 250,000 words in newspaper editorial articles. I analyzed the quotation sentences and measured the ratio of frequency of quotation verbs. The results show that the citations of statement are more than the citations of thought in newspaper reports. But the citations of thought are comparatively frequent in newspaper editorial articles. From this we may know that journalists cite other's statements mostly in newspaper reports. But editors cite their thoughts and assertions in newspaper articles more than in newspaper reports. Using the quotation sentences in reports, the journalists express that cited statements are objective and authentic. And using the quotation sentences in editorial articles, the editors show foundation for their assertion. And '-다고 하-' in articles has function of periphrasis for declining to assert.

Park, Yong-han. 2012. A Study on the usage aspects of Korean Honorifics. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 20(1). pp. 57-77. The purpose of this research is to investigate the usage of “contracted honorifics” in Korean language, and to explain the result in relation to socio-cultural property of the military society. Generally, the military society used to focus on vertical relationships which emphasized on social positions and ranks; however, in these days, the society is changing its focus on parallel relationships which stresses freedom and equality. Thus, the usage of “contracted honorifics” in Korean is gradually decreasing. In comparison with the civil society, the military society still uses the “contracted honorifics” very thoroughly. When one talks in a military society, he/she considers the personnel of the highest rank and addresses others without the honorific title. The usage of “contracted honorifics” in the military is closely related to the special property of the military society. The “contracted honorifics" is consistently used in the military with the focus on the relative ranking order rather than the speaker him/herself due to the special features of the ranking system and the conservativeness of the military. Hence, newly enlisted soldiers have difficulty in adapting themselves to the culture and the language in the military. Although the military is a special community executing national defense, it has to recognize the usage of the general honorifics in the civil society, and make efforts to develop an atmosphere which considers the language used in the civil society.