이주자의 한국어 의사소통에 대한 사회언어학적 고찰 - 광주지역 결혼이주여성의 면담을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the necessity and the possibility of sociolinguistic approaches to marriage migrant women. The data sources are observation and unstructured interview with migrant women in Gwangju. The researcher analyzed interview narratives of them, and focused on their communicative aspects and their perceptions of Korean speech community. The narrated events reflected their language use and their socio-psychological attitudes. The results of the analysis were discussed in the following categories: Korean language proficiency and communicative competence, conversational partners and social network, language attitude towards Korean native speaker. Based upon these findings, this study is concluded by proposing four hypotheses related to the sociolinguistic factors: 1) the development of socio-cultural communicative competence is closely connected to social interaction of marriage migrant women; 2) there is a correlation between economic factor and Korean language proficiency; 3) the social network of marriage migrant women is limited and closed. These have negative influences on the sociocultural adaptation and the development of communicative competence; 4) marriage migrant women who feel uneasy about speaking in Korean have negative attitude towards Korean native speaker.