국내 미디어에 등장한 도시언어현상의 탐색

초록

The purpose of this paper is to explore the metrolingual practice in the Korea media. Facilitated by the increased flow of (Korean) foreigners, linguistic landscape in Korea has become heterogeneous. It can be well understood in terms of metrolingualism, which explains everyday language practice in diverse urban spaces. For example, it includes the mixture of various languages, ethnic groups, and nationalities. In this study, TV advertisement, broadcast, and newspaper articles from the Korean mass media were collected and placed in the five domains of metrolinguistic landscape in Korea: everyday practice, playfulness, layered identities, relocalization, and multitasking. It was found that everyday translingual practice often appeared in the Korean media. Playfulness through code-switching was taken as fashion. Fluxity and fuilidity of languages and identities were intersected, where metrolinguals crossed the borders among different languages as they insisted upon the conventional membership by speaking the language of their target community. Metrolingualism was also well explained in relocalization of cuisine, in the lyrics of hip-hop, or in the multitasking of all linguistic features as resources. It can be argued that language is emergent from the local urban practice, where social interaction arises with spatial interaction. Metrolingualism is expected to describe how different languages, or language with varieties, are adopted to communicate, and predict the upcoming linguistic societies in Korea.

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