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The Korean Cultural Emotion Shown on New-words Related to a ‘Human’

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2015, (95), pp.7-28
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Kang, Hui-suk 1

1조선대학교

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ABSTRACT

The goal of this research is to analyze the Korean emotion and the aspects of social culture which is prehensible through analyzing new-words related to a ‘human’ investigated in 2012-2014. The results are following. At first, the portion of new-words related to a ‘human’ occupied 27.3% so that its importance was practically verified . Secondly, the Korean emotion and the aspects of social culture reflected on the new-words related to ‘human’ were analyzed to 8 kinds. There are 4 emotional dimensions; ‘respecting popular heroes’, ‘a human is not born but maiden’, ‘desiring good-looking and the muscles’, ‘diffusion of disgust’. And in social cultural dimension, 4 dimensions were presented; ‘poverty in the midst of plenty’, ‘the age of maniac and freaks’, ‘the diffusion of outcasting’, ‘the life occupied by internet and smart-phones’. As everyone knows, new-words can be important data by sensitively reflecting aspects of contemporary society and culture and as the parameter of the publics’ emotions. The significance of this research would be the reconfirmation of this linguistic fact.

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