통신언어 준말의 형성에 대한 음운론·형태론적 고찰

Abstract

Korean net lingo is a kind of variant caused by PC communication, internet and mobile communication devices. It has several properties that general languages don't have, and one of them is the reducing phenomena. In this paper, I studied the phonology of the phenomena on many words plus a few phrases and clauses. On the purpose of this I collected and classified the related data, firstly. And I surveyed the differences between these and the general ones. Lastly, the phonological mechanisms which operates on the generation process were researched. The results are as follows: (1) There are two kinds of junmal(reduced word) in the net lingo. One is based on the spoken language(=spoken junmal), and the other is generated only in net lingo without relation to spoken or written languages(=net junmal). (2) ‘Net junmal’ is defined as ‘lingustic form made by phonological or morphological reduction of word, phrase, clause or dependent form in the net lingo'. (3) Net junmal exists only in the written form, but phonetic and phonological principles as well as visual considerations can be reflected in the generation. (4) Characteristically, one of consonants between onset and coda in source word may remain in the net junmal as an identification mark. (5) There a few data that could be explained by analogy. I guess there may be psychological motivation in the generation of net junmal as well as phonetic and phonological ones. We will learn better net lingo through synthetic understanding which can be achieved by interdisciplinary cooperations. And I believe this will give us more insights on human language and ourselves.