『외국인을 위한 한국어 학습 사전』의 사전학적 고찰

Abstract

The Purpose of this paper is to review a learners' Korean-Korean dictionary named 'Learner's Korean Dictionary for Korean Learners'. The dictionary is a paper dictionary for Korean learners. The number of the vocabulary is not certain. But it may be under 10,000 entries. The entries are listed according to alphabetical order. Entries consist words, suffixes and grammatical elements. Roots and derivatives or roots and compounds are listed separately. The micro structure of a entry consists of word forms, pronunciation descriptions, definitions, example sentences and various related informations. The pronunciation of words is described in both the Korean alphabet and I.P.A.. and English. As for verbs and adjectives, arguments structures are provided in meaning fields. And semantic class nouns are described to each argument. This may be useful when learners try to encode their thought into Korean language. Various related informations about the entries are given to them. Therefore Korean learners can get a lot of informations about words they look up, especially the difference between the meanings of synonyms. In spite of the merits above mentioned, the small number of entries may be the fatal problem when learners try to consult the dictionary. Futhermore learners can be uncertain about the meaning which they find in the dictionary because it is a monolingual dictionary.