구술성, 문자성의 교직(交織)과 언해력(言解力)

Abstract

This thesis regards the literature created and written using letters as formed by an interweaving of orality and literality and examined how the essential characteristics of orality are realized in these works. As a representative example, Yeunam Park Ji-won’s writing was analyzed. It is well-known that literacy is emphasized for understanding and writing various literary and linguistic expressions in a literate society. Literacy is the core of character-based expression. When compared with oral society and orality, it is observed that verbal comprehension is equivalent to literacy. Verbal comprehension refers to the ability to listen to and understand another person’s words, create words, and communicate with them fluently. “Language” here encompasses natural elements. This is related to the fact that several works of oral literature have sought to reveal the existence of man through the relationship between nature and man. Park Ji-won saw nature as the source text for writing, demonstrating how the verbal comprehension emphasized in oral literature could be effectively taught in character-based literature and how linguistic comprehension could renew character-based literature. In that respect, Park Ji-won’s writings are good examples systematically examining the relationship between literacy and verbal comprehension as a key characteristic of oral comprehension.