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A Study on the Style in Choi Myeong-ik's Novels -Based on uses of words-

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2011, (78), pp.359-389
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Park, ChangLye 1

1순천대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study is for the purpose of researching the style of Choi Myeong-ik’s novels by following the quantitative approach. We enter Choi’s novel text into a computer, and analyze the base form, word class, and etymology etc. We examine the quantity of vocabulary, richness of vocabulary, high-frequency word, low-frequency word, common word, non-common word, theme word, and unique word in choi’s novel corpus. We compare Choi Myeong-ik’s novel and Park Tae-won’s novels in 1930’s. It is because of their similarity to the literary life. The results are as follows. First, the richness of vocabulary in Choi Myeong-ik’s novels is higher than that of Park Tae-won’s novels. Second, Choi Myeong-ik had preferred animal image, illness, and death in narrative configuration. Choi’s unique words are included a lot of northern dialect(for example, Hamgyeong-do, P'yŏngan-do, Gangwon-do). We should expect that the quantitative analysis of Choi’s novel word will be actively utilized in follow-up measures.

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