조선어 문장 형성 연구의 향방 『문장강화』연구사

Abstract

This paper presents an arrangement of results, trends and future research directions around the studies on Munjang Ganghwa(1940) by Lee Tae-jun. The book is considered as the accumulation of his personal syntaxes and the compilation of his contemporary syntaxes. His syntaxes published before and after the publication of its first edition were included in the book as they were or partly revised. It also reflected the syntaxes and contexts of language movements of various writers around the time when he wrote it. In the first phase of full-scale researches on Lee, researchers used the book as a complementary material to prove the aesthetics of his short stories. As interest had been shifted to the book itself, researches on it were conducted from many different perspectives. The early position of assessing the book was negative. Researchers understood that it exhibited Lee's tendency toward technicalism, applying to their researches the KAPF writers' style of assessing sentences based on the binary structure of KAPF(participation): non-KAPF(purity) during the colonial days. There is, of course, the possibility that it might have served as a textbook with which to teach creative writing methods to prospective writers since most of its example sentences were from literary works. However, it constantly presented interest in and mentions of social language(sentences) in conflict with such an understanding. Characterized by the author's choice of vocabulary, adoption of standard language in sentence organization, and emphasis on the identity of the written and spoken language, Munjang Ganghwa more strongly sought to teach general composition methods or how to write sentences in modern Joseon language rather than creative writing methods. It contained both the characteristics of creative writing methods and those of general composition methods because literary men were accountable for creating "literary Korean" or "Korean literature" those days. Many studies demonstrated that its basic premise was to build a basic "form" for sentences and create "individuality" through deviation and variation from it. The interpretations of Munjang Ganghwa from the perspective of technicalism sentences and creative writing have been expanded to the contexts of social language and language movements, but there is a need for proper linkage between the two research trends. It will guide a return back to the internal issues of texts and also a step closer to the explanation about the contradictions that have been poor.