개신교 선교사가 정리한 한국어 속담과 수수께끼 연구 - 외국인의 한국 언어 문화 습득에 대한 고찰을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper studies the lists of Korean proverbs and conundrums published in KOREAN REPOSITORY and KOREA REVIEW. The lists of Korean proverbs and conundrums reported in this paper are significant for foreign missionaries collected and arranged the originals for themselves. Through the considerations of these linguistic materials which were sorted by foreigners in the late 19th century to the early 20th century, the first purpose of this paper is to understand not only the characteristics of Korean language but those of Korean society and culture on those days. Furthermore, the other purpose of this paper is to examine that what this paper should consider in the field of contemporary Korean language education by studying the foreigners who were interested in Korea tried to learn Korean language and what they thought of Korea highly. This paper surveys Korean proverbs and conundrums by dividing rather vehicle than tenor, and systematize the specific vocabularies of high frequency which were used in the proverbs and conundrums. This is the way of study to examine the language using aspects of Korean people, and to analyze the vocabulary preferences of Korean. This conclusion will be utilized for selecting the vocabularies to non-mother tongue learners.