A Study on the Usage Aspect of the ‘katta’

An, Yoon Mi

This study aims to understand how various meanings of 'katta' are represented in colloquial and written languages. To this end, this study examined the meaning of ‘katta’ by comparing how ‘katta’ is described in various dictionaries. According to this classification, the meanings of ‘katta’ can be sorted into three higher meanings ‘comparison’, ‘metaphor’ and ‘conjecture’. Each of the higher meanings has its subsidiary lower meanings. As such, the higher meaning ‘comparison’ consists of three lower meanings ‘identity’, ‘example’, and ‘value’. Another higher meaning ‘metaphor’ contains two lower meanings ‘similarity’ and ‘criticism’. Likewise, two lower meanings ‘simple conjecture’ and ‘euphemistic conjecture’ constitute the higher meaning ‘conjecture’. This study analyzed general discourse corpus and speech lecture corpus as colloquial language as well as corpus presented in newspapers and books as written language. This analysis revealed patterns of how frequently the various meanings of ‘katta’ are used. In decreasing order, ‘katta’ is used ‘example>euphemistic>similarity>identity>simpleconjecture>criticism>value’incolloquial language, and similarity>example>identity>euphemistic>simpleconjecture>criticism>value in written language. When both colloquial and written languages are combined, the frequency at which the meaning of ‘katta’ are used is in the decreasing order of example>euphemistic>similarity>identity>simpleconjecture>criticism>value. This analysis also identified ‘kattan’ as the most frequently used conjugational forms of ‘katta’. This study helps understand how differences in colloquial and written language arise as well as how our language is used in real world. Furthermore, this study will shed light on constructing learning contents for Korean language education as a foreign language.

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