북한의 방언론

Abstract

The purpose of dialect research in North Korea changed drastically around the mid-1960s. Up until that time, such research was generally carried out following Marx-Leninist linguistic principles, in order to discover the history and development of the Korean language and the linguistic laws that affected this development, to standardize the language, and to do geographical linguistic research through the systematic research of individual dialects. Starting in the late 1960s, however, dialect research broke with previous trends and began to be performed for the purpose of developing and promulgating the Cultured Language" and of improving societys use of language in general.