‘당신’의 변화 양상 고찰 - 국어 호칭ㆍ지칭 체계 수립을 위한 한 시도-

Abstract

A Study on Change Of Value on the Functional Variety of ‘Dangsin' This study aims at finding out the types of functional and valuable changes on the word ‘Dangsin' which has been used until now since it appeared in the 16th century for the first time. The result of this study was arranged in short as follows. Dangsin has been affirmed to go through the change of indicating object from the 18th century. From the 16th century when it began to be in use until 17th century, Dangsin had been used only as a pronoun of the third person. In 18th century, it came to retain some function of the second person and the funtion assumed to be regularized in the 20th century. Under these procedures, the indicating objects also had been certified to undergo some considerable changes. First of all, Tanshin was widely used to mean somebody to whom people can speak with the plain style of speech in the 16th century and was also used for a while to call a person to whom people say in the most honorary term in the 17th century. In the 18th century though, Dangsin sometimes meant someone to be treated with more propriety than the familiar style of speech. Since then, indicating some people and below to whom the familiar style of speech is used, it showed a phase to designate a person to whom rough talking can be used in the 20th century. This study carried on a discussion over the various reason of those changes from the following point of view. That is, under the procesure of functional change from the third person to the second, the unique function of Dangsin as an honorific has been absorbed in intimacy and distance in the end. While the function of intimacy had been brought into relief too much, the meaning of Dangsin finally reached to a situation of intentional design and disregard. Additionally, a recognition that Dangsin is an designating word used in common negatively between couples gave lots of influence on taking its function from the value. Among major generation of age 50~60, a dorminant idea was that wives could not treat their husbands contemptuously while it was possible for husbands to be inhospitable to their wives. In this context therefore, men tend to understand that they are treated contemptously when called ‘Dangsin' by women. They are likely to apply this situation extensively to another general relationship using Dangsin to their wives with a sense of inhospitality. The reason that Dangsin is sometimes used among men with rough talk to raise an unpleasant feeling to another men comes from the same context.