국어사전 편찬 연구사

Abstract

This study aims to describe the history of study about lexicography of Korean language dictionary. I think that the history of lexicography should be distinguished from lexicology because the compilation of a dictionary leads to various problems. Lexicography means the writing and making of dictionaries. The results of this study is as follows; First, Korean dictionary appeared in recent modern times. But these were simply wordbooks. In 1897, Ju Sikyeong(주시경) asserted the necessity of a Korean dictionary, and he compiled Malmoi(말모이), but the dictionary was not completed. Second, langauge law is a prerequisite to the compilation of a dictionary. These problems must be solved by government. However, during the colonial period, the government was not interested in these problems. In 1933, these problems were solved by the CHOSEON-EOHAKHOI (the Korean language Research Society). In 1957, the Korean dictionary was published by the HANGEUL-HAKHOI. The dictionary was named WOORIMAL-KHUNSAJEON (which means the large scale Korean dictionary). However, lexicography was not developed during the modern times. Third, from KHUNSAJEON various dictionaries were published and lexicography developed quantitatively. Today the compilation of a dictionary is based on corpus, and lexicography concerned with the micro and macro structure.