The Lexical Vernacularity of the Tongpâae naksong and the Boundaries of Korean Vernacular Literature

Si Nae Park

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This chapter foregrounds lexical vernacularity, or vernacular writing at the level of words and expressions, to reconsider the history of vernacularization in Korea and the boundaries of Korean vernacular literature. It focuses on the lexical texture of a late eighteenth-century collection of tales from ChosÅn Korea (1392â1910) entitled Tongpâae naksong (Repeatedly Recited Stories of the East), a collection of tales compiled by No MyÅnghÅm (1713â1775). The lexical configuration of the Tongpâae naksong evinces the compilerâs disinterest in striving for the stylistic purity typical of composition in orthodox Literary Sinitic (hanmun) as a classical medium and reveals a pattern of embracing diverse non-orthodox Literary Sinitic elements for their rhetorical effects. By demonstrating that the language of the Tongpâae naksong was deliberately crafted to evoke the linguistic and inscriptional realities of contemporary ChosÅn Korea at the level of words and expressions, the chapter presents the lexical vernacularity of the Tongpâae naksong and its late eighteenth-century milieu as an important yet neglected site for telling the story of vernacularization in Koreaâa story that has been overshadowed by narratives of either the demise or abandonment of Literary Sinitic coupled with the triumph of the Korean script (now called hanâgÅl).

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Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen æ

Reading Sheldon Pollock from the Sinographic Cosmopolis

Series:Â Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis, Volume: 5

Cover Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen æ

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 25 May 2023

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Part 1 Beginnings: Origins and Early Centuries of the Sinographic Cosmopolis

Part 2 Medieval and Early Modern Cases from China, Japan, and Vietnam

Part 3 The Special Case of Korea: From Late ChosÅn to Colonial ChÅsen

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Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen æ