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Lim Ji-ryong. 2009. Criteria for polysemous word identification and classification of their extended meanings. Korean Semantics, 28. This paper suggests and discusses criteria for the identification and classification of polysemous words and meaning extensions, which are an important but unsolved issue of lexical semantics. The criteria are discussed in this paper in terms of prototype theory and the usage-based model of Cognitive Linguistics. Conclusions arrived at in this paper fall into two categories. In the first category, two criteria are established for polysemous words. First, they can be identified by the imposition of two or more core meanings in the usage and in the process of meaning chains. The second criterion concerns faceted words which are on the boundary between polysemous words and those with only one sense. These have to be distinguished from polysemous words in terms of autonomy. In the second category, four criteria for the classification of polysemous meaning extensions are suggested. First, so-called categorial metaphors are needed to take into consideration the amplification of human experience. Second, the typical extension route is from the concrete to the abstract. Third, the frequency of use helps in grasping the degree of activation of specific meaning extensions, though this is not always consistent with the first and second criteria. Fourth, in terms of grammatical information, some particular verbals are classified as polysemous adjectives and verbs, according to the weight of their prototypical meaning. Verbs and auxiliary verbs, on the other hand, are classified as polysemous meaning extensions, while polysemous uses and meaning extensions can also be classified on the basis of arguments, though too much schematization may obscure the nature of polysemous meaning extensions.

A Study on the jargon of Namsadang

Jang, Chung-Deok | 2009, 28 | pp.227~256 | number of Cited : 6

Jang Chung-deok. 2009. A Study on the jargon of Namsadang. Korean Semantics, 28. The purpose of this paper is to look into the jargon which the members of Namsadang, a traveling company, use and to study its characteristics. Originally, Namsadang was an spontaneously created organization in the common people in later of 19th century, and its members lead unique, stringent community lives which were different from those of others. As ways for protecting their organizations from others and maintaining their secrets, they used their own language, through which they strengthened the unity more firmly and were able to keep the secrets of their organizations. In this paper, we took the inheritors of Namsadang's play as subjects of investigation and personally looked into 250 jargon words which they used. Also, we investigated the meanings and coinage patterns of these words, and tried to explain their origins as far as possible. Up to now, the arts of Namsadang's play have been inherited, but the words which the members of Namsadang used haven't been inherited. It is natural that words can be inherited from one generation to next generations only if they are used in daily community lives. Nonetheless, because a great number of these jargon words are rarely used, they are in the face of disappearance. For the present, a lot of jargon words of Namsadang simply depend on the memories of its elder members. Because of these difficulties, we cannot include many exemplary jargon words in the survey. In many cases, they are different from those in documentary materials. Even a certain word is not registered in <Standard Korean Language Dictionary>, and its meaning is incorrectly interpreted. In conclusion, jargon is a group of words which are used by specific groups or classes in itself. However, as it is a part of Korean Language, it should be systematically investigated and recorded before it completely vanishes.

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