향약명 어휘사의 시대 구분

Abstract

This study attempts to divide the eras that can reveal what kind of change process the Hyangyak Terminology system has gone through, focusing on the fact that the Hyangyak Terminology has been recorded in medical books without skipping the ages. As it is an era division of individual vocabulary categories, such as Hyangyak Terminology, the analysis focused on how the Hyangyak Terminology recorded in the linguistic inner history, i.e., periodical medical books, changed over time without considering external factors. Internal factors that can be applied to divide the process of changing the Hyangyak Terminology include the flow of quantitative change, the aspect of creation and extinction, and the degree of sharing between medical books. As a result of comparing and analyzing the Hyangyak Terminology flected in each medical book by applying these internal factors, the medical books that acted as inflection points in the process of change in the lexical system of Hyangyak Terminology were Hyanggu, Gugan, Dongui, and Hyangseong. It was found that the lexical system of Hyangyak Terminology went through three major diachronic changes. Based on these discussions, by reflecting the distinctions of each period, the division of the era is as follows. The first period is the ‘formation periodⅠ’ from the 13th to the 14th century, the second period is the ‘formation periodⅡ’ from the 15th to the 16th century, the third period is the ‘establishment period’ from the 17th to the 19th centuries, and the fourth period is the ‘expansion period’ from the 20th century to the present.