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A comparative study on writing and word change in catholic verse

  • Korean Language and Literature
  • 2019, 72(72), pp.1-27
  • DOI : 10.23016/kllj.2019.72.72.1
  • Publisher : 국어문학회
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : November 1, 2019
  • Accepted : November 20, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

Yu Kyung-Min 1

1전주대학교

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ABSTRACT

The first aim of this paper is to analyze, by way of comparison, amanuscript of Catholic verse, Sokyungtansikga (1931.03.) and its revisedtranscription, Sokyungjatanga (1958.10.), concerning which comparativeanalysis has not been duly attempted so far. This paper hereby elucidatessome peculiarities of the two documents in the history of Koreanlanguage, and also puts forward to the academic field of Koreanlinguistics that the linguistic study on the literature of the KoreanCatholic Church, may enlarge the scope of Korean studies. The final goalof this paper is to contribute to illuminating the periodization of thehistory of Korean language and the importance of its reconsideration, andto more exquisitely describing that history, by proving that the linguisticphenomenon as found in the literature of the Korean Catholic Churchwritten in the modern times for the common people be equal to thecharacter of modern Korean language. Phonological change, though sovehement, does not immediately change the language of all people nor isreflected in the notation of every literature. It is evident that lexicaldiffusion is found in the region of every language in all ages. But allsuch words as enable to be changed is not concurrently changed but oneby one and steadily. Sound changeappears to spread, in that manner, tothose words. For this reason, we need to observe the diverse sources ofKorean language, including the Protestant and the Roman Catholic documents that deserve the much more interest of scholars belonging tothe field of the study. Christian literature in Korea, published in theperiod of upheaval with regard to the change of Korean language, tendsto show its excessively conservative notation, which illustrates the periodof modern Korean language. The linguistic study of that literature likethis paper, thus, is conducive to the better understanding of periodizationin the history of Korean language.

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