한·미 수화언어의 연구동향과 언어학적 접근 = A recent research trend and its linguistic approach to American Sign Language and Korea Sign Language

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The deaf people of Korea have formed a bi-cultural society as a minor group in Korea because they are all bilingual, Korean as a spoken language and Korean Sign Language(KSL) as their own language. This paper tries to help Korean hearing people to recognize this point and to understand KSL.
The purpose of this paper is to examine a recent research trend on KSL and ASL(American Sign Language) and to study its linguistic approach to the two languages, comparing KSL with ASL and Korean as a spoken language. In order to examine this trend, section 1 discusses some problems with basic terms related to sign language and presents five questions to be discussed. Section 2 gives a brief review of history of ASL and KSL. Section 3 examines how to undergo social understanding and language education policies about ASL and KSL. Section 4 considers where sign language is located in linguistics. Here we examine properties of sign language consisting of manual signs and nonmanual signals, finding out the differences and similarities between spoken and signed languages. Section 5 introduces two different methods of the sign language research and deals with linguistic analyses of some significant issues in phenology, morphology, and syntax, which I have studied. Section 6 summarizes findings discussed in the previous sections and provides some suggestions for the further research on KSL.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1.머리말
• 1.용어정리와 문제제기
• 2.한·미 수화언어의 역사
• 3.한·미 수화언어에 대한 사회인식과 언어교육정책
• 4.언어학에서의 수화언어의 위치
• 4.1소리언어의 분절음과 수화언어의 손몸짓 수화(manual signs)
• 4.2소리언어의 초분절음과 수화언어의 비수지적 신호(nonmanual signals)
• 5.한·미 수화언어의 연구방법과 언어학적 분석
• 5.1수화언어의 두 가지 연구방법
• 5.2한·미 수화언어의 언어학적 분석
• 6.결론 및 제언