문학용어사전의 계보와 문학 관련 개념들의 정립 양상 - 1910~1920년대 제국 일본과 식민지 조선에서 편술된 문학용어사전을 중심으로

Abstract

Neologisms, i.e., new words, are coined with the appearance of new objects or concepts that cannot be explicated by erstwhile words. A sudden increase in neologisms leads to the compilation of a neologism dictionary, which is interlinked with the fast-faced world or the advent of a new idea. Technical dictionaries are to define technical terms for specific fields. The compilation of a technical dictionary needs more advanced expertise, compared to that of a neologism dictionary, and needs the delimitation of polysemous words. Thus, the compilation of a technical dictionary implies that neologisms, introduced from Western countries, have planted their roots in a specific class in the language family, and that the academic foundation has been so established that those lexicons may be used usefully. ‘Dictionaries of Literature Terms’ compiled by Japan and its colony, Joseon, during the 1910s and 1920s (Japanese colonial era) shows a process to draw lines of demarcation between neologism dictionaries and a technical dictionaries. The dictionary was to clearly define Western literature terms translated into Chosun language and Japanese language. It shows that Western literature terms began to be recognized as living vocabularies applicable to the scientific and cultural fields of those days. Therefore, the compilation of a technical dictionary may be regarded as a foundation to develop translated words into conceptual words including multi-semantics, which can be confirmed in a debate over the conceptual definition of modern poems precipitated by ‘Dictionary of Literature Terms’ compiled under Japanese colonialism. The headwords in the Japanese dictionary considerably overlap with vocabularies in ‘Dictionary of Principal Technical terms’ compiled by Young Hee Park, and similar notations are observed. It shows that Western literature terms had transcended the language barriers and had been distributed throughout East Asia during the 1910s and 1920s. However, the dictionary compilers had Western literature terms to themselves in different ways. ‘Dictionary of Literature Terms’ focused on containing polysemous words derived from principal concepts and identifying inter-conceptual relationship, whereas ‘Dictionary of Principal Technical terms’ magnified the conflictive interactions between literature terms and an attempt to cut off from the trend of Chosun literature of those days.