2012, Vol.37, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

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

The purpose of this study is to investigate terminologies of Korean semantics inductively and to survey the aspect of differentiation caused by various reasons. As a first step, I investigated all key words in the studies published by Korean Semantics. Korean Semantics has been published last 15 years and 412 studied are presented in total. The number of all key words in these studies are 2,961. Among them, the words of high frequency are ‘metaphor, meaning, cognitive linguistics, metonymy, extension of meaning, polysemy’ etc. But containing the cases of compound word or phrase, ‘structure’ and ‘relation’ show very high frequency. The types of the aspect of differentiation in Korean semantics terminology are divided to three types. A first type is the case caused by just simple translation between English and Korean like ‘cohesion’ and ‘coherence’, and a second type is the case caused by difference of conceptual range like ‘synonymy’ and ‘antonymy’. The last type is the case caused by difference of theoretical viewpoint like ‘basic meaning’ and ‘prototypical meaning’. It will be necessary to make an effort to share some consensus in using Korean semantics terminologies.

This study aims to consider the issues which can be raised in subcategorizing of deixis and the terminology concerning deixis. For this, It discusses the way how the notion of deixis has been accepting in Korean linguistic studies. It also discusses the relation between a point of view on deixis and subcategorizing of deixis as well as the terminology concerning deixis in Korean linguistic studies based on the concept of Origo and Dimension. The results are as follows: First, the way to conceptualize deixis in Korean linguistic studies can be classified roughly into two types; one is based on the relation between deixis expression and context of utterance. the other is based on the relation between origo and the referent of deixis expression. Second, subcategorizing of deixis could be affected by how to conceptualize deixis. The status of Social deixis, Person deixis, and Object deixis depends on a point of view about deixis as a result. Third, Korean equivalent to deixis can be used depending on a point of view about deixis differently.

This paper is focus on the occupational Sino-Korean words of personal suffix which showed hierarchical characteristic. Firstly we use South Korean dictionary as the object of study to collect Sino-Korean words of personal suffix, and then on the basis of distinguishing occupational Sino-Korean words of personal suffix and sort out a directory. With the occupational Sino-Korean words of personal suffix in semantic feature analysis, we know that occupational Sino-Korean words of personal suffix can fully reflect hierarchical characteristic. Among the ‘types of knowledge’ which belongs to the upper class personal suffix, e.x. `‘-家1’, ‘-士a’, and which belongs to the lower class personal suffix, e.x. ‘-者1’, ‘-徒a’, and with which a neutral personal suffix, e.x. ‘-人2’, showed hierarchical characteristic antagonism phenomenon. Between the ‘types of technology’ which belongs to the upper class personal suffix, e.x. ‘-士b’, and which belongs to the lower class personal suffix, e.x. ‘-師a, -手a, -工a’ showed hierarchical characteristic antagonism phenomenon. And also between personal suffix of ‘types of identity’ and the ‘types of unknowledge-technology’ showed hierarchical characteristic antagonism phenomenon.