청구야담 한문본 필사 오류 연구 - 음사(音寫)의 개입을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper studies cases of errors incurred in the process of transcribing Chunggu Yadam in Chino-Korean and analyzes the reasons of their errors. Four prominent reasons can be traced: the first type of errors occurring from homonyms; the second from words with similar shapes but different letters; the third from words with similar meanings but different sounds and shapes; the last from the different location of Chino-Korean letters. This paper limits its analysis only to the first cases. First, this paper illuminates the principles of phonetic transcription of Chunggu Yadam and then proceeds to analyze four types of errors resulting from the phonetic transcription process. 1) The first cases occurred when the transcriber used letters with different meanings even though he read and remembered the original texts correctly. 2) The second cases happened when the transcriber replaced the original words with the letters with same meanings that he thought were more suitable to the context. 3) The third cases resulted from incorrect transcription due to misreadings or false memories of the original words. The last cases were results of transcribing similar letters based on mistaken readings and rememberances of similar letters. Based on these observations, this paper explores the possibilities of utilizing these errors in phonetic transcription for comparative analysis of different editions of Chunggu Yadam. A Principle can be deduced that an edition presumed to be a later version has more phonetic transcription errors. An edition with phonetic transcription errors has little chance of being an earlier version than that without errors. Chino-Korean version of Chunggu Yadam contains fair numbers of transcription errors due to similar shapes of letters. Further analysis of these errors is necessary for a comprehensive study of transcription errors of Chino-Korean Chunggu Yadam.