드라마에 나타난 호칭어 및 높임법 사용 양상 연구

Abstract

This study investigates the usage and co-occurrence rule of terms of address and their honorific levels used by male and female protagonists in two Korean TV dramas. This study also aims to investigate social context such as listener-speaker relationship, solidarity, and discourse situation by analyzing the conversations of protagonists’. The findings of the study are as follows: (1) The male protagonists use various terms of address; the female protagonists, on the other hand, mostly use relative terms of address, which indicate the close relations among people. With regard to the frequency of occurrence, the male protagonists use terms of address more than the female protagonists. Further, the male protagonists can select the terms of address more comfortably and their choices are less-restricted, while the choices of the female protagonists are more-restricted: this is because, in most cases, the male protagonist is older than the female protagonist and the former tends to have a dominant status in his relationship with the latter. (2) The male protagonists in the two Korean TV dramas used honorific levels -hae, -haera, and -haeyo, and the female protagonists used honorific levels that indicated a higher rank. Even though aspects such as the listener-speaker relationship, sex, and discourse situations change, the male protagonists use the same terms of address and honorific levels while the choice of the female protagonists is more-restricted depending on the solidarity (close or distant relationship) between the listener-speaker. It was found that the female protagonist in one TV drama, mainly uses honorific levels -hae, and -haeyo, which are used naturally and widely in dramatic and daily conversations, while the other female protagonist, uses honorific levels -hapsyo, and -haeyo, which are used more often and purposely in TV drama.