근대 계몽기 과학 담론 형성과 일제강점기 ‘과학적 국어학’

Abstract

This paper aims at exploring two themes. First, I review the scientific discussion from the modern enlightenment period from 1880’s to 1910. Second, I discuss the scientific linguistics during the Japanese colonial period. Generally speaking, scientific means studying the methodology or principles of a given topic. This term is used following the formation of various academic field (Not sure this is necessary). After the opening of a port, various modern knowledge has been introduced through China and Japan to Korea during the modern time. For example, IEON(易言) introduced the school system and study field. This book was translated into the Korean language in 1883. The discussion of scientific methodology was introduced by Korean students studying in Japan in the 1890’s. They introduced induction and deduction, which were research methods of social sciences. A lot of independent consciousness or technical terms formed at that time. The study of language meant learning language. But, linguistics means the studying of the nature of language. In this sense, scientific study of Korean language appeared in the 1900’s. An Hwak(安廓) suggested the value of scientific methodology of language in 1915. But this argument did not have special meaning because this methodology had been suggested by other scholars. The problem of unification of Korean language was the most important problem at that time. Therefore, many scholars were interested in how to write Korean letters correctly. Nonetheless, some scholars introduced the historical-comparative linguistics, including Jeong Ryeol-mo(1927) and Cho Hyeon-bae(1927). These tendencies to the advancement of Korean linguistics.