1930년대 사전의 외래어 수용 양상 -모던조선외래어사전(1937)과 조선어사전(1938)을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study aims to examine loanwords entries in the Korean dictionaries of the 1930s, when foreign new words surged into Korean. To this end, the analysis was made by comparing The New Dictionary of Foreign Words in Modern Korean (1937), the first Korean foreign language dictionary compiled by Lee Jong-geuk, and Joseoneosajeon (1938), the first Korean dictionary compiled by Moon Se-young. Both dictionaries intended to present the standard form of loanwords by establishing hierarchies between entry words in macro-structure. However, there were distinct differences in terms of the specific criteria to setup the standard forms in two dictionaries. A sample analysis of diet-related words showed that the entry words of the two dictionaries were much more inconsistent than the matching ratio. Among the common entries, 7.7% had the same spellings, and 9.9% had different spellings. The reason for the difference in spelling was the difference between the use of special characters to write foreign words and the establishment of a phoneme correspondence between foreign and Korean languages. In addition, there was a difference that Lee’s dictionary contained a total of foreign words used in the literature at that time, while the dictionary of Moon contained only those that were deemed to have become everyday words. Finally, unlike Moon Se-young, Lee Jong-geuk did not recognize words from Japanese as loanwords because he did not see Japanese as a foreign language.