무언(無言)은 무념(無念)일까? ※ : 침묵의 사회적 기능에 대한 탐색적 연구

• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: 이채린(Lee, Chaerin) 김세헌(Kim, Seheon) 허태균(Hur, Taekyun)
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제27권 1호, 199~226쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2019.03.30

영문 초록

The majority of silence research has been limited in a negative perspective in which silence was stigmatized as passive non-behavior or counterproductive behavior in the organization. The present study proposed a broader and balanced approach of silence as a way of active communication in daily communication and investigated its social functions. The Eighty college students completed an open-ended questionnaire asking context cues, the reasons, and the consequence of intentional silence in daily life. The reasons and consequence were categorized to extract their structural factors. Eleven factors of silence reasons were abstracted: “partner caring”, “conflict avoidance”, “thinking arrangement”, “dissatisfaction”, “discomfort”, “embarrassed”, “annoyingness”, “misunderstanding”, “no-idea”, “uninterestedness”, and “ignorance”. The silence consequence data revealed 11 factors such as “turning topic”, “understanding and accepting silence”, “apologizing”, “partner s efforts of resuming communication”, “escaping discord”, “continuation of partner s unilateral speaking”, “misunderstanding”, “partner–embarrassed”, “awkwardness”, “stop communicating”, and “nothing happened”. Furthermore, the analyses on frequencies of silence reasons by partner s gender or relational attribute(vertical vs. horizontal) showed the patterns that have been consistently found in verbal communication literature. The findings suggest that silence is not meaningless inaction but active and goal-driven communication. Its functional implications in cultural contexts were discussed.

목차

1. 연구배경 및 연구목적

2. 이론적 배경

3. 연구방법

4. 침묵 이유와 침묵 결과의 요인추출

5. 침묵 이유 특성 유형화의 타당성 검증

6. 논의

키워드

silence functions of silence partner s gender vertical/horizontal relation