근대적 언어관의 전개와 국어정립이라는 과제의 인식 양상: 한국의 특수성을 중심으로

Abstract

This study endeavors to explain Korean uniqueness in the modern process of language arrangement by tracing correlations between the modern views of language and the practical activities of Korean establishment from the late 19th century to the 1960s. The study focuses on periods of Korean language establishment, which were marked by major historical events including Japanese Annexation of Korea, liberation, separation, and the Korean War. Subjects involved in the activities of Korean establishment displayed complex patterns of reality perceptions and views of Korean, which suggests that the process of Korean establishment cannot be identified with the modern process of the West's national language establishment led by bourgeois nationalists. The study set out to examine how the views of language that emerged in relation to the activities of Korean establishment in the early modern days were accepted, excluded, and segmented through the processes of "establishment of national language during Japanese rule" and "establishment of Korean during the division between the two Koreas," to explain the Korean uniqueness observed in the process of performing the task of Korean establishment. Chapter 2 focuses on the patterns of escape from Sino-centrism formed in the early modern days, which combined with expectations for a modern national state and a sense of crisis of losing the national rights, which then converted into language nationalism. Chapter 3 examines the patterns of language arrangement activities carried out in the colonized situations and those of views of language being diversified by reviewing the critical logic of language nationalism. In the process, the investigator notes the context in which Marxist and positivist linguists became involved in the activities of language establishment. Chapter 4 investigates the logistics of Korean reconstruction raised in the process of reconstructing Korean, taking notice of the historical context of each piece of logic.