아랍어 표기 체계의 형성과 인식론적 전환: 문자성 개념을 중심으로

The Formation of the Arabic Writing System and an Epistemological Shift: Focusing on the Concept of Literacy

This study investigates the formation of the Arabic writing system during the seventh and eighth centuries through Walter J. Ong's theory of orality and literacy, analyzing its development as a transition from early scribal literacy to academicized literacy. Abu al-Aswad's vowel dots and his disciples' consonant dots in the late seventh century exemplify early scribal literacy, characterized by the persistence of orality, empirically grounded knowledge, and restricted access to writing. Al-Khalil's ḥarakāt system, which replaced dots with letter-derived diacritics, and his compilation of Kitāb al-'Ayn in the late eighth century mark the transition to academicized literacy, featuring textual autonomy, theoretical systematization, and the transformation of knowledge from tacit to explicit forms. This research reinterprets the development of the Arabic writing system as an epistemological transformation, elucidating the profound impact of writing on linguistic cognition and knowledge systematization.