2013, Vol.41, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

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

This paper aims to explain the compositionality and the mechanism for realizing the compositionality in Pustejovsky’s (1995) the Generative Lexicon Theory. The Generative Lexicon Theory considers the compositionality as one of the most important and essential issues in the formal semantic research and revises the methodology of realizing compositionality. This theory also suggests the strong compositionality and the concrete processes for applying it to the natural language, although it does not show the strict correspondence between a form and its meaning and the polysemy or the polymorphism will appear in the natural language. These processes of the Generative Lexicon Theory include type coercion, co-composition, and selective binding. However, the Generative Lexicon Theory has a weakness on explaining a context-dependent interpretation by the strong compositionality.

The purpose of this paper is to show that the syntactic relations of middle verbs is able to be predicted according to the semantic relationship between the multiple noun phrase of the transitive construction of middle verbs in Korean. We classified the two noun phrase in the transitive construction of middle verbs into 2 types (called alienable relation and inalienable relation) based on the semantic correlativity. We investigate that the middle verbs of Korean are classified as 1)Causative class 2)Passive class 3) Passive+Causative (ambiguous meaning) class according to these semantic relations and then each class of multiple noun phrase has different semantic and syntactic features. In this study, we examined the middle verbs which collected from previous research, various dictionaries and Sejong Corpus.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the language usage aspect of the TV caption by analyzing the mass media language from the visual point of view, and examining the expression which caption has as a text. Caption is the text to act as communication between viewers and program. The function of caption first started with a purpose to provide basic information such as the title of the program, name of the person on-air, the name of the place, but now caption performs a function to enhance the effect of the broadcasting by communicating with viewers. Caption combining with the visual elements provides various kinds of information such as dialogue and psychological state, description of circumstances, and the story telling of producer particularly in case of entertainment program. In the present paper the 3,782 captured captions on TV entertainment program are studied for looking into expression form and function form. Expression form of caption is divided into image form and language form. Expression function of caption has a text playing roles in communication which are divided into speech delivery function, description function, explanation function and interpretation․evaluation function. Caption in the mass media language influences the younger generation in the digital era who is accustomed to the TV monitor. The communicative function that visual sign has in caption can also reflect younger generation's way of expression. This study has significance of looking into the Korean's language culture through caption which is used in mass media.