2005, Vol., No.54

Korean Language & Literature 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.63

pISSN : 1229-1730 / eISSN : 2733-8738
https://journal.kci.go.kr/koreall

The purpose of this study is to introduce the bibliography in Simsugwon Version and 14-year-version of Maisie reign, in bound form of Kyorinsuji and to examine the phonological characteristics presented in those books. Kyorinsuji of Simsugwon Version is a Korean Conversation Book distributed to the Japanese from Gangho to Maisie reign. Kyorinsuji is a precious source for a comparative study of modern Korean language and Japanese language. Kyronsuji(1843, manuscript) is the collection of a Simsugwon’s descendant living in Kuju and volume 1(part), 2(part), 3(full) among 4 volumes exist. 14-year-version of Maisie reign was revised and enlarged by Poroiyu and published in 4 volumes in the department of Foreign Policy. The system of Kyorinsuji is as follows ; there is a headline written in Chinese and below it, there are Korean sentences related with the headline and Japanese translation. Comparing these two, they are different versions. Simsugwon Version shows ‘conservatism of orthography’ of editor who followed the system of the Middle Korean orthography in the areas of palatalization, roundedness. Ming dynasty 14-year-Version actively reflected the system of Modern Korean orthography.

In this study, We intended to describe the diversification process of meaning between bueok(the dialect of central area, the standard language) and busak(the dialect of Jeollanamdo) in diachronic method. Although bueok and busak have the same pedigree, meanings are not in accordance; busak means a fuel hole and bueok means a cook space. In Jeollanamdo dialect, a cook space is jeongje, not bueok. On the other hand, the standard meaning of a fuel hole is agung-i. Busak and jeongje(the dialect of Jeollanamdo) correspond to agungi and bueok(the dialect of central area) as synonyms. Therefore, We assumed that bueok(or busak) meant both a fuel hole and a cook space etymologically. Busak and jeongje have been used from the middle ages and used in Jeollanamdo Jangheung up to now. But as agungi meant a fuel hole in the central area of the 17th century, bueok didn’t mean a fuel hole anymore. Therefore, We concluded that meaning between bueok and busak was differentiated in the seventeenth century. Also we investigated the process of phonetic changes on busak and jeongje. Busak has preserved ‘ㅅ/s/’ that is a phonetic form in the early middle ages than ‘ㅿ/z/’ that in the middle ages. The final phoneme has been changed as follows; ㅂ/b/ > ㄱ/g/ > ㅋ/k/. Jeongje is originated in jeongdyu(form in the middle ages) and has been changed as follows; 졍듀/jeongdyu/ > 정디/jeongdi/ > 정지/jeongji/ > 정제/jeongje/.

This article is designed to research the poetic mind and the literary thoughts of Seokjong Lee Jung-jik. He considered that everything be the subject matter of a poem from our moral nature to the chores of our daily life. As he regarded human nature as unchangeable, poems had to have something to do with human affairs and poets should write unchangeable poems that were not be influenced by the drift of the times. The characteristics of literary thoughts in his poetry are as follows. Firstly, Seokjong pursued the pure poetic mind of virtue and ampleness which was presented in poong-a of the ancient <Book of Poetry>. He tried to inherit the creative attitude of the Book of Poetry and to recover the tradition of lyric structure of poong-a. That was the old poem. Secondly, he believed that the poem was to be based on the pure and true ‘human nature’. Poetry should not gloss over the matter for the purpose of getting a certain worldly intention. Poem should not founded on the ‘sentiment’. He thought that it was not from an innate ability but form an incessant endeavor to achieve this sort of poetic creativity. Thirdly, as Seokjong got older, his method of writing poem was of statement or of discussion. This meant that he did not use metaphor or symbolic expression in his poem, but described things as they really were in a brief and an easy way. Finally, from the perspective of poetic history of the late Choson Dynasty, he was one of three prominent literary men in Cholla Province(Honam Region). This paper tried to explain where he was and what his literary works meant in the history of literature in the late Choson Dynasty. In the literary circles of Cholla Province in that period could be divided by two main streams, the one Seokjong group and the other Maechon(Hwang Hyun) group.