1920년대 중반 근대 교육 수혜자의 어문생활사 ― 전주신흥학교 유학생의 일기 자료를 중심으로 ―

Abstract

This paper describes the characteristics on the life history of Korean language of a student who received modern education in the mid-1920s. It is based on a diary written by a student lived in Muju province and studied at Jeonju Sinheung School in 1924. The writer of the diary received primary education for about six years from 1918 to 1923. When he was studying in Jeonju in 1924, he was exposed to various regional language norms while interacting with speakers from different regions. The language norm used in the dairy was ‘Eonmun Cheoljabeop’ which was made in 1921 under the Japanese occupation era. However, in the diary we found that the writer had lived according to traditional writing practices rather than the two writing rules. This exemplifies the fact that education for Joseon language was not organized in school education at that time. In this diary, it is reflected various phenomena of Muju dialects. The writer showed an attitude to modify his local dialects’ phonological phenomena, which seemed to be over-corrected. Nevertheless, there was no indication for a correction on the phenomenon of front vowelizing under the sound of friction. This indicates that he might consider its phenomenon as a trans-regional norm which was regarded among intellectuals at that time. He studied in Japanese at school, but used Korean language when he write a diary. The school he attended was teaching him to cultivate faith and ethnic spirit. It influenced him to write a dairy in his mother language not in Japanese. Even though he did not receive systematic spelling education, he made efforts to match its notation and pronunciation with his own heart. This paper is a case study that describes the Korean language life in the mid-1920s. Hopefully, the history of Korean language life will be filled the gaps through inductive researches including this one.