한국어 해라체 종결어미 ‘-다, -ㄴ다’의 구어 사용 양상 연구

A Study on Uses of the Colloquial Sentence Final Ending ‘-ta, -nta’ within Spoken Korean Language

In order to evaluate the function of final endings within colloquial spoken language, this study analyzed 1,208,409 script lines from four recent major mainstream dramas. Previous studies claim '-ta, -nta' is predominantly used within literary styles, and used in relative and independent scenes within the colloquial language. This study examines the specific functions of '-ta, -nta' within colloquial spoken language. First, '-ta, -nta' is preferred in spoken language in the case of a male speaker, and it is commonly used when a teacher gives an imperative or proposition to a student. Second, it can be seen that '-ta, -nta' is used within the formal polite hashipshiyo-style, familiar polite haeyo-style or the familiar hae-style, in these circumstances '-ta, -nta' has the function of 'admiration, warning, imperative, volition and quotation'. Third, it expresses the manner of the speaker, and has the functions of relaying new information and making declarations. This study evaluates the functions of the sentence final ending '-ta, -nta' in spoken language, and in order to clarify the functional skills of sentence final endings in spoken language, the boundary tone of the sentence also needs to be taken into consideration. Although this study was not able to include this, it will become a future area of research.