한국어 글쓰기를 위한 동서양 작문사의 비교연구

Abstract

In this thesis I tried to study the history of writing in Korea in respect of the lingual-ontological problem in Korea, and to make clear how to write in Korean righteously in contact with western culture. To say nothing of the fact that a considerable part of Korean language consists of Chinese characters, large portion of Korean terminologies has become rooted in western classical language: Greek and Latin. So Korean have come to maintain a great number of unclear words which must be transcribed in Chinese character, but whose origin is Greek or Latin, and written in Korean alphabet. I suggest we can overcome this problem by newly composing etymology dictionary of primary concept terms, in cooperation of Korean language scholars and western classical philologists. And I make bright Korean special case of writing history, comparing it with the western one focusing on the transmission and translation of Aristotle. Chinese culture had been dominant in medieval Korea, so Korea has had a strict literature tradition resulting from the development of exegetical studies, but it lacked the esteem in national oral language and its alphabet. To make today's Korean writing properly, we must translate western literature into Korean according to a distinct and rigid standard. To support this, fluent Korean vocabulary must be increased using appropriate understanding of translation history of academical terms.