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A Study of the Types and Characteristics on Modern Korean Terms of address

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2010, 33(), pp.95-129
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Son Chunseop 1

1광신대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to establish better systems of terms of address through classification of modern korean terms of address. There were studies that terms of address connected with postposition were included in the category and ‘jeogiyo’ or ‘yeoboseyo’, which are for getting attention, were included as well. But this classification is not so proper. So this study divided the terms into two categories; common terms of address and kinship terms of address. Most of the terms of address are nouns, which are subdivided into three; ‘Noun+Suffix/Bound Noun, Noun, and Pronoun. The first two kinds of nouns have five subcategories, and they have geononymy and teknonymy. Another purpose of the study is to describe the characteristics of modern korean terms of address based on the classification system built in this study. We considered the structure of terms of address and what kind of speech level of hearer honorifics could be used with. As a result, we found there are meaningful differences of using in the speech level according to types of terms of address. So we organized the using context, and this will lead to understanding of restriction of using terms of address. We hope this study provides opportunities of self-examination on ambiguous categorizing system and establish reasonable system of terms of address. It also helps other studies on categorizing system of terms of address in Korean and better education of using terms of address.

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