2006, Vol., No.58

Korean Language & Literature 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.63

pISSN : 1229-1730 / eISSN : 2733-8738
https://journal.kci.go.kr/koreall

The aim of this paper is to investigate when metaphorical meaning occurs in compound nouns. In compound words, transferred meaning may occur during or before the process of compounding. We treat this matter in the term of psychological processes which operate in production and inter- pretation of compounding words. We argue ‘conventionalization’ of the transferred meaning offers the key of solution. In metaphoric expressions, if the transferred meanings have been conventionalized to the lexical meaning of source nouns, meaning-transfer occurs before compounding. In the rest metaphoric expressions, meaning-transfer occurs during compounding. Conventionalizations of the transferred meaning take place in two domains, one of which is individual word level, and the other is schema level. The consistency of transferred meanings and the frequencies of source nouns play a critical roles in conventionalization. In conventionalization of transferred meanings of individual word level, token frequency of those words is important factor. The conventionalization of transferred meanings in schema level depends on type frequency of members of the schema. (Kunsan University)

The purpose of this article is to investigate the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of body-related idiomatic expression in the New-Style Novel[Sinsoseol]. The idiomatic expression can be defined as multiple word unit that contain the formal fixedness and the semantic idiomaticity. The contents of the study can be summarized as below : The greatest number of syntactic patterns is the descriptive idiomatic phrase and clause in idiomatic expression which body-related words(hand, eye, mouth, nose, ear) consist of. This is caused by the psychological desire of speakers which will express their minds differently. The semantic patterns in idiomatic expression which body-related words(hand, eye, mouth, nose, ear) consist of is not large different from that of modern korean. The idiomatic expressions which contains 'hand' are often represent the action, judgement and attitude of speaker. This is caused that the ‘hand’ contains the semantic feature [+mobility]. The idiomatic expressions which contains ‘eye’ and ‘mouth’ are often represent the psychological expression of speakers. The sensitive expression appears a few idiomatic expression. This is caused that the ‘hand, eye, mouth, nose, ear’ are sense organs.

This paper investigates the collocation change of Sinsoseol and modern novel by using statistical method. This study discusses 1.06 million words in Sinsoseol and 1.03 million words in modern novel. The structure of the discussion is as follows: In the second chapter, measuring method is suggested after the existing methods on the collocation structure are discussed. The existing methods just covers the frequencies but this paper suggests statistical value to show more objective evidence. In the third chapter, the collocation structure on tobacco, water, and alcohol is investigated by using statistical methods such as Tscore, Zscore and MI but Tscore is mainly used because it can be a good standard to discern the collocation of Sinsoseol and modern novel. In the forth chapter, the causes of collocation change is examined. They are investigated by language contact, frequency effect and cognitive approach. Among the three main causes, In conclusion, collocation change by cognitive approach is proved more useful than by language contact in explaining the causes of change.