2015, Vol.49, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

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

Jo Min Jeong. 2015. The Study of meaning and function’s expansion of ‘Jom’ on the basis of multi-corpus. Korean Semantics, 49. This study intends to investigate meaning and function’s expansion of ‘jom’which is a adverb of degree which represent speaker’s attitude about events. Basically its basic meaning is ‘a little’, but it has also ‘some degree’ in some data. And also it’s meaning changes across the data, ‘refusal’, ‘boast’, ‘reproach’, ‘discourse marker’, etc. This paper investigate those phenomenons by three tests which are a substitution of ‘jokum’, a possibility of deletion, a meaning change test. Two meaning of ‘jom’ are controlled by a verb which is with ‘jom’ in the same clause. And ‘request’ is derived from a positive of ‘jom’ by honorific system, and it is advanced to ‘boast’ or admiration. While ‘refusal’ is derived from a negative by substitution ‘jokum’. ‘Jom’s a determiner which emphasize a preceding noun, an adverb phrase. It is used a discourse marker which presents the begin, middle, and close part of a discourse.

Jeong, Sang Hee. 2015. A study on semantic functions and extensions of ssik in Korean. Korean Semantics, 49. This study aims to clarify the semantic functions and extended meanings of ssik uniformally. So-called distributivity marker ssik has vary semantic constraints according to grammatical characters of its immediate precedence which serves as distributed share in distributive dependency. Ssik induces distributive reading by attaching to not only numeral NPs but also certain sorts of adverbs. Further ssik evokes non-distributive reading regardless of grammatical subcategories of its precedence. Firstly I claim that Distributed Dependency from Choe(1987) and Conditions on Distributivity from Joh(2008) can explain different constraints of ssik. I further discuss about non-distributive ssik based on typical semantic extension route in cognitive mechanisms.

Lim Ji-Ryong, Song Hyunju. 2015. Motivation in Korean Sign Language. Korean Semantics, 49. The purpose of this study is to examine motivation aspects between meaning and form of the Korean Sign Language. This study is aimed at KSL as one of the languages, and motivation pattern shown in Korean Sign Language examine through the concept of iconicity and Conceptual Metaphors. The form and meaning of the language is neither arbitrary nor predictable but rather motivated. Iconicity is not an objective relationship between our mental models of image and referent. for example, KSL so(‘bull’) whose form resembles the shape of a prototypical elephant, is purely iconic. Its form directly resembles its meaning. This process involves a substantial amount of conceptual work, including image selection, conceptual mapping, and schematization of items to fit the sign. The iconicity sign language is composed of form-based iconicity KSL and motion-based icionicity KSL. There is more than just iconicity, however, in signs such as taehwa(‘conversation’), whose form resembles those sending and receiving the ball. This use of a concrete image to describe an abstract concept is an instance of metaphor, and taehwa is thus metaphorical as well as iconic. The metaphorical sign language has three types; structural metaphor-based KSL, ontological metaphor based KSL, orientational metaphor based KSL. Sing Language are partially motivated by our embodied experiences common to all human being and partially by our experiences in particular cultures and societies.