국어 방언 연구의 새로운 길, 구술 발화

Abstract

Traditionally dialectal materials have been collected by fieldworkers with a questionnaire. However, narrative data can give us more natural information of the dialect than the questionnaire does. Of course, we cannot make the systematic research of phonology, morphology and other fields only with the help of narrative data, for the narrative discourse is not a systematic data. In spite of limitation of the narrative data, however, the narratives can give us a new way to find many interesting lexical items not covered by the questionnaire. Sometimes narrative data of an informant shows phonological or morphological variation, on the basis of which we can get the idea of direction and degree of linguistic changes. Narrative data also includes many strategies of discourse, from which we can open a new field of dialect study, 'dialectal discourse analysis'.