『朝鮮時報』의 문자표기 고찰

Abstract

This study examines use cases of Japanese kana notation, Chinese and Chinese character notation, and Korean vocabularies in the Japanese newspaper『Chosun Sibo(朝鮮時報)』that shows features of the written material in the late 19th century. The latter half of the 19th century, when the newspaper was first published, was a turbulent time with many confusions and changes in character notation. After the Meiji Restoration, official school education began with the campaign to unite speech and writing but the notation system that inherited "The historical kana use(歴史的仮名遣い)" caused confusion because it did not match the contemporary pronunciation. In addition to that, many of the foreign words imported from outside since the introduction of westerm culture added the confusion. It is difficult to conclude that the usage of characters appearing in the『Chosun Sibo』 differs from those written in Japan at the time. However, the『Chosun Sibo』 was published in Japanese for about 46 years in Busan, which has many differences from Japan in terms of language and culture. It should be noted that Korean words that are difficult to write in Japanese were transliterated into Chinese characters or kana in this paper. Closer research is needed on a variety of Chinese characters found in the『Chosun Sibo』, as well. between 'aspirated sound' and 'clear sound' in ancient Korean language.