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Gender inequality of address terms and honorific usages in the conjugal relations

  • The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
  • Abbr : 사회언어학
  • 2011, 19(1), pp.159-186
  • Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics

Cho, Tae-Rin 1

1국립국어원

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to examine the gender inequality of address terms and honorific usages in the conjugal relations and to evaluate the significance and the limits of some proposals on the improvement of related problems. First of all, this paper starts with a brief review of theoretical background such as linguistic approach, sociolinguistic approach, feministic approach, etc. Secondly, this paper makes an attempt at a comparative examination on five precedent researches and studies. And then, a survey of about 100 students of 3 university in Seoul was carried out for the purpose of comprehending their attitudes towards address terms and honorific usages in the conjugal relations. Finally, synthesizing and comparing the results of 5 precedent studies and our own survey, this paper analyzes the inequal side of address terms and honorific usages in the conjugal relations and looks at the symptom and possibility of change.

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