≪俚諺四叢≫의 俗談硏究 = A Study on I-Eon-Sa-Ch'ong(俚諺四叢)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Proverbs are used regardless of the people, time and place as a form of language. But when they are expressed in a concrete sense, they put on the particularity that a person forms a situation in connection with a certain time and place. The collaction of materials for proverbs or a dictionary also puts on the feature and limit of the times in which inverstigation, writing and publicaiton are made.
"I-Eon-Sa-Ch'ong" (Proverfs collected from all districts) is a collection of proverbs written in 1911 by an old classical scholor by the name of Ch'o-Eun born in Hwang-Hae Province.
The writer talked about his view of life in this book. He investigated the property of the proverbs ith reference to the phases of the times and the consciousness of the authors centering upon around one thousand proverbs in this book.
The writer clarified the purpose of this book as follows. He said that he intended to hand over the instruction of this book to his son and to the young generation so that the materials might nor be scattered or completely forgatten. He added that he wished to transfer the pride of the Korean language to the young generation even after his father-land was merged into Japan. He classified the materials of this book into four parts: dialects, legends proverbs and maxims.
Proverbs were defined as a system of metaphor. Several similar proverbs formed a Ka-sa styled phrase and they were divided into twenty items such as the fields of heaven, earth, animal and plant etc.
The writer described excellently the contrast of substitution and repetition which can be said to be the exquisiteness of expression in proverbs. He expressed the joys and sorrows of the common people in addition to the satire and humor which were the original property of proverbs.
He stongly suggested that one should find the merits of all things and give the strong meaning to them. He disclosed his own view that moral education and preservation of one's own language could be the way to restore the national sovereign reghts being confronted with the national ruin.
The posture and apprceiative eye of the writer is considered to be worthy of being handed over to the present time.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序 論
• Ⅱ. ≪俚諺四叢≫과 作者
• 1. 序文儉討
• 2. 著作目的
• 3. 體製와 整理
• 4. 作者考察
• Ⅲ. 俗談의 考察
• 1. 素材別 分類와 한 例의 考察
• 2. 表現의 妙味
• 3. 哀歡의 表出
• 4. 勝劣格言의 構造
• 5. 歌辭體에 表出된 人間性
• Ⅳ. 結 論