2006, Vol.21, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

pISSN : 1226-7198 / eISSN : 2734-0171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/semantics

Choe Hochol. 2006. The Essence of Meaning from the Perspectives of Traditional and Structural Linguistics. Korean Semantics, 21. In a language research, the genuine interest in the essence of the meaning itself can be said to originate from the perspective which considers the language as an individual concept and intentionally excludes other concepts which are not related to the language. Therefore, in a traditional linguistics where language research was done in connection with non-linguistic concepts such as society, culture, and history with all the interest in the meaning, it must have been difficult to focus on the meaning itself. However, in a structural linguistics which focuses on the internal relationships in a language, the priority should be placed on catching the concept of the meaning in order to describe the internal relationships. Consequently, a full argument on the concept of the meaning could have been made in a structural linguistics. In this study, the discussion on the concept of the meaning from the perspective of a structural linguistics will be reviewed intensively.

Kim Yoon-shin. 2006. The Argument Alternation and the Semantic Interpretation of Homomorphic Causative/Passive Verbs in Korean. Korean Semantics, 21. This paper aims to examine the argument alternation and the semantic interpretation of Homomorphic Causative/ Passive Verbs in Korean. In Korean, some causative verbs and passive verbs are said to have the same morphology and to be ambiguous, that is, causative or passive meaning. This paper classifies 40 homomorphic causative/passive verbs into 4 types based on various argument alternation and explains the meaning interpretation based on causative event and reflexive relation. Among 4 types of Homomorphic Causative/ Passive Verbs, type A and B cannot take a reflexive theme while type C and D can. Also, type A and B are ambiguous, while type C and D have dominant passive meaning with causative one. This shows that causative and passive are closely related to each other based on causative event and reflexive relation.

Kim Jin-hae. 2006. Nature of Meaning: A Perspective of Corpus Linguistics. Korean Semantics, 21. This paper explores some theoretical implications that corpus linguistics provides for the nature of meaning. Corpus linguistics would not be confined to either warrant for objectivity to evaluate any thesis fairly or an auxiliary role as a provider of surrounding examples. Language data contribute to linguists not only in supporting their intuitions but in producing new intuitional discoveries. Furthermore, corpus linguistics provides new insights and paradigms. In this perspective, language is not homogeneous, and meanings are defined by discourse communities. This stance renders it dubious to distinguish between basic and extended meanings extensive and intensive meanings linguistic and encyclopedic knowledge and paradigmatic and synthetic relation. This distinction, by the way, has been taken for granted in theoretical linguistics. Corpus linguistics takes a firm holistic stance, assuming that large units such as discourse, context, construction, and pattern define meanings of simple words in it. This linguistics is also related to post-modernism in the sense that it denies prototype and essential meaning as well. Placing its focus on a language game played at the surface level, this discipline recognizes dynamics of structure wherein an agent's activity exists.