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Kim Jung-nam. 2007. About Several Phenomena of Korean Language Concerning with the Transparency. Korean Semantics, 22. This paper aims at examining of the notion of transparency and giving an explanation to several phenomena in Korean Language Usages with the concept of transparency. I have dealt with the lexicalization, the overlapping of synonymous words, semantic distortion with a Chinese character, making the proper nouns' transparency indistinct, and ensuring the transparency by using the homophones. I assumed that the common cause of above all phenomena is the transparency, and I tried to give an appropriate explain to it. Transparency is a very important motivation in using the certain language forms and changing the lexical or word forms. Since many general speakers mind using the opaque forms, they tend to make every possible effort to gain the transparency. The representations as results of these efforts are the overlapping of synonymous words, semantic distortion with a Chinese character, etc. On the contrary, in the case of proper nouns, we can find a strategy of transparency weaken operating.

Nam Kyoungwoan. 2007. A Study on the Conventional Pre-nominal Form of Korean Verbs. Korean Semantics, 22. The purpose of this study is to examine the types of the conventional pre-nominal form of Korean verb and to consider how we can determine the category of these types. Some Korean verbs are only appeared on the form of modifying use not using on the form of predicative. In this study, the types of the conventional pre-nominal form of Korean verb are divided to three types. A first type is that the meaning of predicative use and the meaning of modifying use are different(type1) and a second type is that a predicative use are not appeared in corpus(type2). The last type is that an elliptical element can be recovered in the subject position. This type is divided into two cases again according to the character of subject. In former case, the elliptical subject is recovered as a possessor of modified word(type3-1) but in latter case the elliptical subject is recovered by a property of modified word(type3-2). In result, the type1, type2 and type3.2 can be treated as a determiner by a criteria of semantic, morphologic, syntactic construction.

Park Byeong-cherl. 2007. A Study on the Front Part of Road Names: Focusing on the Name of Alley in Cheong-ju City. Koeran Semantics, 22. The lot number based address system which is utilized exclusively in Korea has become ineffective and even absurd as the structure of the city became complicated due to rapid industrialization and expansion of urban life. Thus, the government is now executing the New Address System with the name of the road and the building number to establish much effective address system. This thesis intends to analyze the current status of naming of roads in Cheong-ju city focusing on the front part of the names of alley. Among 375 names, 130 names are constructed with basic-type of rear part and 245 with extended-type of rear part. 260 individual vocabularies are utilized to construct the front part and among these disyllabic words are most frequently utilized due to their economical efficiency and stability. Also, chinese-originated words(한자) are more frequently used than native words but this produces some problems in rhythmical harmony with the rear part. Toponyms are frequently utilized to form the road names and those that utilized ancient toponyms are very encouraging for the restoration of extinct native words. This research ultimately aims to find more adequate measure for the naming of front part of road names. All the data and conclusions that result from this thesis will be further utilized for this purpose.

Bak Jaeyeon. 2007. Foreground and Background of Grammatical Meanings. Korean Semantics, 22. This paper aims to distinguish foreground and background of the grammatical meaning, and on this basis, to present a method describing some aspectual connective endings. First, I insist that the distinction between foreground and background in discourse pragmatics should be applied to not only textual or sentential informations, but also lexical and grammatical meanings. I recognize that ‘-eumyeonseo(-으면서), -neurago(-느라고), -goseo(-고서), -jamaja(-자마자)’ have two kinds of meaning component: one is relational component(between two clauses) such as ‘simultaneity, cause, preceding, succession’ and the other is aspectual component such as ‘perfective, imperfective.’ Their aspectual meaning components cannot function as ‘focus of answer’, while their relational components can. I argue that this difference can be described in terms of foreground and background. That is, their relational meanings are foreground meanings while their aspectual meanings are background ones.

Bang Young-sim & Lee Jeong-hwa. 2007. Aspects of the Conceptualization of HAN. Korean Semantics, 22. From a cognitive linguistics perspective, the purpose of this paper is to examine the Korean people's representative emotional concept, HAN. Based on the corpus data from The National Institute of The Korean Language corpus, this paper aims to show how Koreans conceptualize HAN in terms of conceptual metonymies and metaphors. HAN is regarded as abstract and difficult to define because of the fuzziness of its conceptual boundary. Unlike the basic emotions such as anger, sadness and joy, HAN is not a spontaneously responsive emotion, but is rather a complex blended concept, created over a long period of time, after those basic emotions are accumulated, suppressed or mitigated in the person's mind. For this reason, HAN is shown to reveal much less direct physiological effects (chest-aching, bone-aching and blood-drying) than the basic emotion, anger. Despite the difference, HAN should thus be characterized in close relation to other emotions, because it is based on, and caused by the emotions . The instances of HAN show some aspects of conceptual metonymies such as [Physiological effects of HAN stands for HAN], [Locus of HAN stands for HAN]. It is also argued that HAN is limited to occur in only some of human body parts, i.e., in the chest, in the bone (marrow), and in the blood. The abstract concept, HAN, is conceptualized via various conceptual metaphors such as [HAN IS A THING], [HAN IS LIQUID/SOLID/GASEOUS MATTER IN A CONTAINER], [HAN IS A PLANT], [HAN IS A THREAD], [HAN IS FOOD IN A BODY], [HAN IS DIRT TO BE AVOIDED].

Song Jung-keun. 2007. The Semantic Characteristics of 'ha(ta)' Combined with Substantival Nouns. Korean Semantics, 22. The purpose of this study is to research the semantic characteristics of 'ha(ta)' combined with substantival nouns, which is very different from 'ha(ta)' with predicate nominals. A former assumptions on 'ha(ta)' with substantival nouns is that it is a pro-verb or generic verb or light verb based on the various semantic functions of 'ha(ta). But in this study 'ha(ta)' with substantive nouns is divided into largely two classes. One is the class that the meaning of 'ha(ta)' is decided by the context. And the other class is that the meaning of 'Substantive noun-ha(ta)' construction is idiomatic. The former is not a issue in semantics but in pragmatics and only the latter are connected with semantics. The idiomatic 'substantive noun-ha(ta)' constructions have the predictability of context and the similarity with collocation in that noun play the important role deciding the meaning of the noun-verb combination. 'ha(ta)' in the idiomatic 'substantive noun-ha(ta)' construction is sometimes used not idiomatic meaning but contextual meaning. It shows that the idiomatic usage of 'ha(ta)' originated from the context-dependent usage of 'ha(ta)'

Shin Hee-sam. 2007. A study on the Formation Principle of Compound Noun on the Lines Function of Compound Words. Korean Semantics, 22. Compound words are one of the most economical formation system. Compound word adopts existing words to expose new conception.Only compound noun is dealt with in this study, the condition of compound noun is dependence compound words which has core of meaning to N2.The function of compound words is divided to six categories. First, function of low grade category, second, function of metaphor, Third, transition of meaning, fourth, materialization of abstract meaning, fifth, function of indirect naming, sixth, function of analogy.Based on this, principles of compound word formation are divided into four principles of familiarity propensity, principles of polysemic word formation, principles of analogy, principles of ramification or subdivision.first in principles of familiarity propensity, the important role of flesh words, animal words in formation of compound word is studied.Second in principles of multisense word formation, mutual circulatory relation in formation of compound word and multisense word is studied.Third in principles of analogy, the role of analogy in formation of compound word in principles of familiarity propensity, principles of multisense word formation is studied.Fourth in principles of ramification or subdivision, N1 and N2 is studied separately. Ramification is the case of N1, subdivision is the case of N2.

Yang Myung-hee. 2007. On the synonym in the Korean Language Dictionary. Korean Semantics, 22. This study is to establish criteria of the synonym list in the Korean Language Dictionary. For this aim we investigate criteria of the synonym list of the three kinds of the Korean Diationary. We know that the synonym of the same word is different in the three Korean Dictionary. The criteria of the synonym list in the Synonym Dictionary are different from those of the Korean Dictionary. We differentiate the contextual synonym and the lexical synonym. Korean Language Dictionary have to list the contextual synonym. For this the lexicographer had better make a Synoym Dictionary it shows elaborate meanings and abundant examples so the users can understand the synonym in the contexts.

Oh Mijung. 2007. Education of Korean Honorific Expressions for Foreign Learners: By Analysing Dialog Corpus. Korean Semantics, 22. This study investigates the various aspects of the Korean Honorific expressions by analysing the transcribed television broadcasting corpus data. Although there has been a lot of research on the Koran honorific system, there have been few thesis which was focused on the actual aspects of the Korean honorific expressions or on the directions and strategies for the use of it. We can conclude that contemporary Korean honorific expressions are restricted not by strict rules but by a few principles. We suggest the 9 principles of the Korean honorific expressions to help Korean language learners to communicate successfully.

Jeong Byong-chol. 2007. A Study on the Experiential Correlation Based Meaning Extension of Verbs: Cognitive Approach to Interaction between Verb and Construction. Korean Semantics, 22. The meaning of verb already had been studied by many researchers of transformational grammar's background as an important subject for its significant relationship with syntax. Within cognitive linguistics framework also, the meaning of verb is assumed to play central role in determining overall structure of arguments. Goldberg (1995, 2006) suggests that construction itself has the role of head, which is determinant of argument structure, and it is readily accepted that there occur interactions between verb and construction. In this study, we have examined metonymic meaning extension of verbs based on experiential correlation as formulation factor of syntactic frame, because metonymic meaning extension mechanism is different with metaphorical one in that it adds co-related meaning to prototype, not just extending application of schematic meaning to different domains. With this experience-based approach, it is possible to provide more cognitively motivated theory of construction and its interaction with meaning of verb.

Choi Jin-a. 2007. The Learning Contents of Metaphor in Korean Language Education of the Secondary Schools. Korean Semantics, 22. The purpose of this research is to examine the present situation and problems with the learning contents of metaphor in Korean language education of the secondary schools, and to present a desirable alternative direction for metaphor education. The subject of this research are the past curriculum, the current curriculum and textbooks according to the 7th curriculum. Metaphor is being taught as one of the ways of figurative expression, seen just as a literary device in a rhetorical view. Metaphor is a cognitive strategy with which the human understands world and it is easily found in the daily language. Therefore it should be recognized and reflected in the curriculum and textbooks. Metaphor should be taught with the essence of language. And it should be taught by experiencing spoken and written languages and daily and art languages.