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A Study on the Head-words in the Categories on Human-beings of Classificatory Glossaries

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2010, 32(), pp.169-191
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Yu Kyung-Min 1

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the lexical system and the classificatory criterion of the pre-modern Korean glossaries by analyzing the head-words in the glossaries of the pre-modern Korean like Yŏgŏ-ryuhae(譯語類解), Waeŏ-ryuhae(倭語類解), Tongmun-ryuhae(同文類解), Mongŏ-ryuhae(蒙語類解), Bangŏnryusŏk(方言類釋), Jaemulbo(才物譜), Kwang-Jaemulbo(廣才物譜), Mul-bo(物譜), Mulmyeong-gwal(物名括), Mulmyeong-Go(物名考/攷), Mulmyeong- Ryuhwi(物名類彙), Mulmyeong-Chan(物名纂), Jap-Mulryujip(雜物類集). This study also aims to contribute to the description of lexical history of Korean. Chapter 1 introduces the aim of the study. In chapter 2, the author compares and shows the common features and the differences of the categories in the glossaries mentioned earlier. In chapter 3, the author focuses on the categories about human-beings which characterizes the classificatoty criterion of the words-grouping in the glossaries. In chapter 4, we examine the head-words in the categories about human-beings and their Korean/Sino translations. Chapter 5 is the conclusion. The head-words in the glossaries are classified according to the category. These categories are joined with the adjacent ones, which means that the authors of the glossaries had a correct understanding of lexical field. In Yuhaeryuseo and Mulmyeongryuseo, vast amount of vocabularies are included. By investigating the categories and the head-words, we can get hint on the way of thinking of peoples at a certain periods of time.

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