노년기 동년배 대화에 나타난 지시 대명사 연구

초록

This study aims to analyze the aspects of demonstrative pronouns used by old-aged people in ordinary conversations. Thus, by comparing the data of 40 old-aged speakers’ ordinary conversations with that of another 40 young speakers’ ordinary conversations, this study analyzed the functions of demonstrative pronouns as well as the appearance form and frequency of demonstrative pronouns. The analysis results can be summarized as follows; Firstly, the old-aged group showed more forms of demonstrative pronouns than the young group and even about twice more in the appearance frequency than the young group. Secondly, when analyzing the series of ‘Yi,’, ‘Geu’, and ‘Jeo’, this study discovered that the old-aged group showed a lower frequency of ‘Geu’, but a much higher frequency of ‘Jeo’ than the young group. Thirdly, when analyzing the functions of demonstrative pronouns, this study found out that the following context demonstrative function was used most frequently. Lastly, the old-aged group showed higher frequencies of interjectional function and speak’s though demonstrative function than the young group.

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