The status of ‘name’ in Korea has been considered to preserve the historic origin. It symbolically indicates the prestige of a name in this country. In order to treat a person and his family with courtesy the name has to be honored carefully. In the case of the surnames they are from Chinese origin and are usually preceded by a place name designating the family lineage. The other part of a name - given name - also shows a unique feature by the way of containing a generation marker. Of disyllabic given names represented with two Sino-Korean characters, one is used to mark the generation according to the rules of hangnyol (行列), to be described immediately below. Also, a person could retain pseudonyms in addition to his own personal name, and he could hold at most 13 names, which shows the great interest of Koreans toward a name. Although, in the past, the naming practice has been concerned only with hangnyol and the semantic contents of the characters in the name, recently everyone is not just a member of his clan or state but also of the international community. He has to divert his own consciousness of the meaning of a name. When they compose names, they need to attend to the following aspects of a name: euphony of names, ambiguity accompanied by phonological alternation, pronounceability in Romanization and names in Hangul.
목차
1. Introduction 2. Personal Names 2.1. A Historical Background 2.2. Korean Surnames 2.3. Naming Practices 2.4. Pseudonyms 3. Place Names 3.1. A Historical Background 3.2. A Classification 3.3 Linguistic Significance 4. State Names 5. Concluding Remarks Works Cited [Abstract]
키워드
A historical origin of personal namessurnamegiven namenaming practicepseudonymplace names
저자
Chin W. Kim [ (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ]
국제언어인문학회 [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES IN LANGUAGE]
설립연도
2000
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
국제언어인문학회는 '언어를 통한 인문학 연구'의 필요성에 동감하는 여러 전공분야 학자들의 뜻을 담고 있습니다. 언어에 초점을 맞추는 것은, 다양한 전공분야의 참여에서 생겨날 수 있는 '이질적 집합'의 상황을 극복하기 위한 장치입니다. 현재로서는 작은 불씨를 지핀 것에 불과합니다. 그러나 이렇게 일구어진 불꽃이 새로운 학풍의 바람결에 커다란 섬광으로 빛나게 될 날이 올 것을 우리는 확신합니다. 우리의 학회와 학술지는 인문학 불변의 가치와 시대적 사명을 인식하는 국내외의 학자들을 향해 활짝 개방되어 있습니다. 특정 전공의 범위를 넘어서서 철학, 문학, 언어학, 종교, 역사, 문화, 예술 등의 시각에서 언어의 본질을 토론할 기회가 될 것입니다.