@article{ART003215658},
author={Ahn Juhyeon},
title={A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters},
journal={The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea},
issn={1226-4822},
year={2025},
volume={33},
number={2},
pages={155-180}
TY - JOUR
AU - Ahn Juhyeon
TI - A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters
JO - The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
PY - 2025
VL - 33
IS - 2
PB - The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
SP - 155
EP - 180
SN - 1226-4822
AB - This study aims to construct a corpus of 17th-century Korean personal letters, classifying them into royal and aristocratic (yangban) correspondences, and to compare their linguistic features through quantitative analysis. Based on a total of 285 letters—including ｢현풍곽씨언간｣, ｢숙명신한첩｣, ｢숙휘신한첩｣—the 17th Century Eongan Corpus was developed with detailed morphological analysis and lemmatization. The findings reveal that yangban letters tend to utilize practical and colloquial expressions, whereas royal letters demonstrate a more written style with enhanced forms of greeting and ritual politeness. Distinct differences were observed in pronoun usage, speech levels, sentence endings, and adjectives. Furthermore, phonological changes and dialectal vocabulary appeared more frequently in yangban letters, whereas royal letters maintained linguistic conservatism. This study contributes a new methodological approach to the field of historical Korean linguistics by providing a structured corpus and employing corpus-based analysis to elucidate stratified stylistic features.
KW - 17th-century eongan;letters from the royal family;yangban correspondence;morphological corpus;stylistic comparison
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Ahn Juhyeon. (2025). A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 33(2), 155-180.
Ahn Juhyeon. 2025, "A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters", The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, vol.33, no.2 pp.155-180.
Ahn Juhyeon "A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 33.2 pp.155-180 (2025) : 155.
Ahn Juhyeon. A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters. 2025; 33(2), 155-180.
Ahn Juhyeon. "A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 33, no.2 (2025) : 155-180.
Ahn Juhyeon. A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 33(2), 155-180.
Ahn Juhyeon. A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea. 2025; 33(2) 155-180.
Ahn Juhyeon. A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters. 2025; 33(2), 155-180.
Ahn Juhyeon. "A comparative linguistic study of 17th-century royal and yangban Korean letters" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 33, no.2 (2025) : 155-180.
