단성 호적 인명에 관한 사회 언어학적 고찰

Abstract

This paper made a social―linguistic analysis of names appearing in computerized Dan―seong family register. First of all, it examined gender characteristics of male slave names to female slave ones, and next, from historical viewpoints, compared characteristics of male commoner names to male slave ones by classes. The type frequency of male slave names are higher than female slave names in all the root words in native words and Sino―Korean words, which means male slave names were more diversely generated. In case of names derived from native words, male and female slave names shared the same kinds of meanings as 'praying for natural cessation of childbearing, animals, looks', and male slave names included 'rock, freeload', and, on the contrary, female slave names were frequently involved in 'a tool, anonymity'. In case of word roots of Chinese characters, '順(means complaisance) was commonly written in all of male and female slave names. However, male slave names usually included '命(life), 貴(valuable), 福(fortune)', while female slave names were usually involved in such a month name as 'January, February,' etc. or in female features such as '玉(jade), 月(the moon), 春(spring)' etc. As a result of analysis of the names of male commoners and male slaves, it was found that commoners used names derived from native words less but Sino―Korean words more than slaves. As the time passed by, the ratio at which slave classes use native words increased rather than reduced, which was because that, as the number of slaves reduced, the slaves included into commoners changed their names to Sino―Korean words. Accordingly, the ratio at which people that remained as slaves use native words did not reduce. The reason that the ratio at which the class having a family name and origin among slaves, whose social standing was relatively high, used names derived from native words was relatively high compared with the class having no a family name and origin was because that, when slaves improved their social position, put more emphasis on acquirement of a family name and origin than use of names derived from Sino―Korean words. They got to expand their use of names derived from Sino―Korean words when they changed their social standing into commoners. The commoners' consciousness toward Yangban can be confirmed from names in view of the fact that the ratio in which some commoners whose social status was high used the names derived from native words was remarkably low.