방송언어 개선 연구의 현황과 발전 방향

The Current State and the Development Direction of the Studies on Improving of Broadcasting Language

The purpose of this paper is to seek the development direction of the studies on improving of broadcasting language, by examining the fruits and the limitations of existing research. Firstly, this paper makes sure that the study on improving of broadcasting language is one of the subtypes of study on broadcasting language. Then the current state of the studies on improving of broadcasting language is analyzed by genre, problem, and assessment standard. According to this analysis, existing research is concentrated too much in certain genres such as current affairs and news, but also in certain problems such as accuracy or publicness infractions. Finally, this paper concludes by suggesting three development directions of the future studies on improving of broadcasting language as follows: (1) Accuracy or publicness related problems need no more studies on themselves but continuous and systematic monitoring and institutional device. (2) We need more interest and research on language used in certain genres such as TV home shopping and commercial break. (3) Fairness or soundness related problems need more studies on themselves, because the judgement or assessment standard of these problems is not only difficult to find out, but also in need of viewer and listener awareness investigation and social agreement procedure.