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The Perception of College Freshmen and Applicability of Expression Education about Buzzwords/New words

  • The Journal of General Education
  • 2023, (24), pp.151~199
  • DOI : 10.24173/jge.2023.07.24.5
  • Publisher : Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education > Field of Education > General Education
  • Received : June 20, 2023
  • Accepted : July 13, 2023
  • Published : July 31, 2023

Kim Sookyung 1

1이화여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate what buzzwords students usually use as part of communication education to find out which expressions they enjoy and which ones they do not use, and whether they know the exact meaning, utility, or origin of the expressions they are using. As a result of the study, the characteristic aspects of buzzwords mainly used by students were as follows. 1) I have fun focusing on sound rather than meaning. Therefore, Chinese characters, which are symbols, are also recognized as phonetic languages, and abbreviations are widely popular only when the sound is interesting. It creates a new onomatopoeia and uses dialect like English. 2) Recognize letters as images. Therefore, people express their movements with letters, write them backwards, mix signs and letters, and read the shape of letters differently. 3) Create vocabulary in a new way that has not been used before. Therefore, prefixes are used instead of adverbs, and one of the existing letters is changed to express the desired meaning. Although not as much as prefixes, suffixes are used for nuance, and a compound word of Korean + English is made. 4) Students' buzzwords are changing very quickly. Therefore, existing buzzwords are used under different names, vocabulary that originally existed is used in different meanings, and expressions are changed several times to show the same meaning. In addition, buzzwords that were limited to vocabulary changed to connections or sentences of several vocabulary words. The reason why students use such buzzwords is to 1) pursue fun even with the same expression, and 2) use it as a means to understand and overcome the environment or situation surrounding them. 3) There was also a part of choosing and using buzzwords appropriate to express one's feelings and situations. Students who enjoy using buzzwords like this were well aware of the meaning or function of the buzzwords they used, and even grasped the origin and pattern of change. I also knew that buzzwords are used to interact with friends, not in front of adults. In terms of communication education, awareness of buzzwords is considered rhetorically necessary in that it can check and expand its expressible list.

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