생태적 관점에서의 국어 정책의 현안과 과제

Abstract

We cannot overemphasize the importance of a nation’s national language policy in that it affects directly on all the users of the national language. These days, entering the multi-cultural society, our understanding of the importance of national language policies is now lacking in spite of the latest emphasis. It is more necessary for nations to lay the foundation for the informationalization of the national language than anything else in order to create a future-oriented knowledge-based society. This manuscript presents several problems which have arisen in the process of operating the national language policy in the past and sets up a goal for a future national language policy. 1) There were insufficient philosophical thought in setting up the basic course for the national language policy, and the locus of responsibility of the group of experts who had to set up the basic was unclear. 2) The administration process of executive organs for the national language policy is bureaucratized. 3) ‘Language & Literature provision’, ‘Standard Korean unabridged dictionary’ are now losing their position. 4) The government doesn’t easily do something for the national language policy. We now prepare some alternatives by looking into these problems, and set the goal from the ecological point of view in this manuscript. Language is a part of the complex ecosystem. The problem concerning the language crisis is directly connected with the preservation of ecosystems of the earth. We have to lay a ground work for the informationalization for the national language which can strengthen the nation’s competitive power of knowledge and make a creative generation of cultural national language. In order to do so, we have to endeavor to make a generation where the government and the national language organizations share the information and cooperate with one another.