2018, Vol.62, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

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

Metaphor is a method of understanding new information through already known information. An article about economy seems very objective as it delivers fact-oriented information, but its conceptualization could differ in accordance with the intention of a writer. Once the writer choses a specific metaphor for information delivery, a reader builds a meaning frame according to the intention of writer and understands the information within the frame. According to the examination on metaphoric expression used in articles about virtual currency, it used conceptual metaphor that makes virtual currency look like dangerous beings. There were conceptual metaphors like VIRTUAL CURRENCY IS MINERAL, VIRTUAL CURRENCY IS A ORGANISM, VIRTUAL CURRENCY IS A MAN, VIRTUAL CURRENCY MARKETING IS WAR. Also, there were metaphoric expressions in accordance with characteristics such as demand and supply, competition, capital transfer and market mood such as ECONOMIC ACTION IS RACE, MONEY IS AN ENTITY, ECONOMIC SITUATION IS THE MOVEMENT OF WATER/AIR.

This paper aims to explain the semantics of the aspectual auxiliary predicate ‘-eo issta’ and ‘-go issta’ constructions considering the semantic function of the connective endings ‘-eo’ and –go’ and the distribution of the auxiliary predicates. Connective ending ‘-eo’ is a sequential marker and another connective ending ‘–go’ is a sequential and simultaneous marker. So ‘-eo’ is related to the resultative aspect and ‘-go’ is related to the progressive and the resultative aspect in aspectual auxiliary predicate. As for the distribution of ‘-eo issta’ and ‘-go issta’, ‘-eo issta’ and ‘-go issta’ can be combined with the same event type having the similar meaning or the different meaning. This paper can verify that the aspectual meaning of the ‘-eo issta’ and ‘-go issta’ constructions can be analyzed based on the event structure of the Generative Lexicon Theory and the compositionality principle.

“Geumankeum” is known as an adverb representing “as much(many)/to that extent”. So it is described in the dictionaries that it is used only in its meaning, ‘proportional equivalence’. However, this paper argues that the adverb has the additional function to connect the sentence in the meaning of the expatiation. In this process, it said that it is necessary to set up a function that is called ‘inferential expatiation’. I also examined the ending expressions that emerged together with “geumankeum” in this semantic function. The contents of each chapter are summarized as follows. In section 2, I objectively demonstrated that this adverb has a unique function, distinct from the conventionally proposed function. To this end, I looked at the unique syntactic and semantic features that appear when used as the function. In section 3, I distinguished between concepts of ‘paraphrase’ and ‘expatiation’. In doing so, I identified the unique characteristics of ‘expatiation’ and then specified the meaning function of “geumankeum” as the basis. In section 4, I established the semantic features of the sentence including this adverb. I suggested that because of these features, there are various end expressions that are co-occurred in the sentences.