Language Use and Language Discourse in Pak ChiwÅnâs YÅrha ilgi

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Chapter 14 Language Use and Language Discourse in Pak ChiwÅnâs YÅrha ilgi

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Departing from the observation that teleological narratives about a unilinear development of ever more ânationâ-oriented language theories and linguistic practice in ChosÅn Korea do not necessarily hold, the present chapter probes into the language ideology of Pak ChiwÅn æ´è¶¾æº (1735â1805), who, as one of the most representative âsirhakâ thinkers of Late ChosÅn, may serve as an exemplary case. His magnum opus, the YÅrha ilgi ç±æ²³æ¥è¨ (Jehol Diary), both an intellectual milestone and a literary masterpiece, is scrutinized for its discourse on language (especially on language plurality, the relationship of Literary Sinitic to spoken languages, and the relative merits of Korean versus spoken Chinese and Literary Sinitic) as well as its linguistic and intertextual practices. It is demonstrated that the text provides neither a clear-cut hierarchization of languages nor an unequivocal valorization of Korean as a language of learning on a par with Literary Sinitic. Rather, the divide between the two linguistic media seems to go along with a differentiation of (higher) âtruthâ and the âveracityâ of quotidian life. The fact that much of YÅrha ilgi is devoted to an appreciation of the cultural value of the quotidian is mirrored in the multiplicity of linguistic codes employed in the text. That it stops short of using vernacular Korean in a more comprehensive way is explained by Pak ChiwÅnâs esteem for the universally communicative function of Literary Sinitic (rather than for its social corollaries), and by a desireâfound to underlie some of his narrative strategiesâto write in a literary space where the cosmopolitan and vernacular cultural spheres merge.

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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