Father’s Language and My Language: Generational Shifts in Language Ideology and Identity in a Korean War Evacuee Village

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· 발행기관 : 한국문화인류학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국문화인류학 / 49권 / 1호 / 313 ~ 345페이지
· 저자명 : 김성인

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This study examines language use and its cultural value across two generations in an evacuee village in Ch'ŏngho-dong, Sokchosi, especially among the first generation born in North Korea and the second generation who are their descendants born in South Korea. Based on the ethnographic research, I investigate the language ideologies in the linguistic and identity practices of two generations in the village, to explore how changes in language ideologies are explained by each generation and affect the way the members of each generation relate themselves to language. The first generation emphasizes how their language is connected to the evacuee families. For them, Ch'ŏnghodongmal indexes their hometown in North Korea and people who migrated from there. The second generation says Ch'ŏnghodong-mal is a native language shared by the villagers who grew up in the village, which includes both North Korean and South Korean descendants. They also acknowledge that chances of speaking Ch'ŏnghodong-mal are shrinking, and they think that speaking Ch'ŏnghodong-mal is accepted in specific situational settings with intimate speech participants. In essence, the second generation considers Ch'ŏnghodong-mal to be a limited register. The language uses in the situational settings lead the second generation to find their identity in the interaction. Speech participants often seek old vocabularies from Ch'ŏngho-dong in the past and stress that their linguistic features match Ch'ŏnghodong-mal. The speech participants’ collective cooperation helps them to find and explore a speaker’s membership via language use. The intertwined relations of social change, language found in language ideologies, and the speakers’ adaptations represent the villagers’ strategic justification and imagination of their linguistic and identity practices in a changing social world.

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