This study aims to investigate and analyze the corpus and questionnaires of the Korean vocabularies “Namjadapda/Yeojadapda”, and “Namseongseureopda/Yeoseongseureopda”, by focusing on how to use and recognize the target vocabularies. The results are as follows.
First, the meaning function of the four vocabularies is described as a discourse function including the dialogue situation and the psychological strategy of the speaker based on the contents of the dictionary meaning and the contents of previous research. Second, by analyzing the use of the four vocabularies in the corpus, we observed that they are mainly used as “Namjadapda” and “Namseongseureopda”. This positively indicates that man possesses the properties and feelings attributed to man, and also that the expression “Yeojadapda” can be euphemistically expressed by using “Yeoseongseureopda” for the woman.
By analyzing the examples of “Namjadapda” and “Yeoseongseureopda”, we can see the perception of the language users. They recognized the man as being unabashed in black skin by virtue of his properties and feelings as a man, and similarly, that the woman possesses the properties and feelings associated with woman, and this is seen in a fragile attribute such as wearing a skirt. Third, as a result of the survey, we found that there was no distinction between “Namjadapda” and “Yeojadapda”, “Namseongseureopda” and “Yeoseongseureopda”.
However, the attributes of men and women were revealed differently through behavior, personality, tone, and appearance. Men’s characters and feelings consist of being thick and strong, with short heads, cool personalities, doing exercises, and expressing hapsho style and slang.
Women’s attributes and feelings consists of having long hair and thin appearance, as people with careful and delicate personalities who mainly cook and speak in a soft and fascinating manner.