해방기 신어사전의 문화정치학

Abstract

Liberation was an era of new words(neologism). In diverse literary activities during the liberation period, liberation of words was considered as equal to that of the nation. This perception affected production of neologism dictionaries during the liberation period. However, against general belief, it was not that neologism dictionaries focused only on ethnicity for its production. Rather it was outcome of combination of modernity orientation and ethnicity one. This article examined the existence methods of neologism dictionaries during the liberation period, focused on Sineo-sajeon(neologism dictionary, 1946) of Minjosa and Latest Version of Modern Words Dictionary(1946) of Jijungsae. The former dictionary can't be said as a dictionary containing only new words during the liberation period. It is because it transferred most of Sineo-sajeon(1934) published by Cheongnyeon-Joseonsa during the colonial period as is. In the meanwhile, the dictionary published by Jijungsae was quite different form that of Minjosa. These two neologism dictionaries focused more on professional terms than new words or fad words used by the public at the time. These two dictionaries enabled the researcher to identify gap between transitional nature of academism during the liberation period and the public.