가족 간 호칭의 한일 대조연구

Abstract

This paper carried out a survey on the use of the address terms for family members in Korean and Japanese university students. This paper conducted a contrastive analysis of the investigation outcomes from an angle of sociolinguistics. The important findings are summarized as follows. First, the most commonly used address terms for grandmother is halmeoni(grandmother) in Korean and obaachan(grandmother) in Japanese. Second, unmarried Korean sons and daughters respectively use appa (father) and eomma (mother) most commonly as the address term for father and mother. On the other hand, unmarried Japanese sons and daughters call their father and mother otoosan (father) and okaasan (mother), and married Japanese sons most frequently address their mother as obaachan (grandmother) from the viewpoint of the youngest family member. Third, for the address term for mother-in-law, eomeonim (honorific form of mother) is most frequently called in Korean, however, obaachan (grandmother) is most commonly used from the point of view of the youngest family member in Japanese. Fourth, as the address term for daughter-in-law, emi (plain form of mother) or teknonymy and daughter in law's first-name+san are most commonly used in Korean and Japanese, respectively. Fifth, in the two countries parents call their sons their first-name. In particular, 20 percents of Japanese parents respectively use oniichan (elder brother) and otoosan (father) as the address term for unmarried and married son from the point of view of the youngest family member. Finally, for the address term for spouse, yeobo (honey), jagi (darling) and teknonymy are usually used in Korean. On the other hand, otoosan (father) and okaasan (mother) are generally used for the this term in Japan from the viewpoint of the youngest family member.