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A Study on the Orientational and Ontological Metaphors of 'Life': Focusing on Recent Internet Data

  • Multi-cultural Society and Education Studies
  • 2022, 11(), pp.77-96
  • DOI : 10.22957/mses.11..202207.77
  • Publisher : Institute for multicultural studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : June 10, 2022
  • Accepted : July 4, 2022
  • Published : July 30, 2022

Bai, Do-Yong 1

1부산외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

As the foundation study of Korean language education, this study was aimed at examining the patterns of oriented and ontological metaphors among the conceptual metaphors of 'life' in Korean. As a result, the following conclusions were drawn. First, life-oriented metaphors included: [life up], [life's good state up, bad state down], [life's light up, out down] [life's memory up, forgetting down], and [life's unburden up, and burden down]. Second, in the ontological metaphor of life, there were objects, machines, fragile objects, watches, bowls, and guest metaphors. Among them, it can be seen that the [life is a machine] metaphor conceptualized life experience as having conditions for improving productivity or efficiency. In addition, the metaphor showed a social atmosphere to increase mechanical productivity and efficiency through job search difficulties among young people due to the domination of international financial capital and globalization and lifelong work. In addition, the [life is a guest] metaphor provided one aspect of why we want to move away from the complex networks of human society and live in nature or in isolated areas.

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