2021, Vol.71, 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 examine the linguistic characteristics of the expression of ‘taste’ in online restaurant review texts. Although restaurant reviews are written language, they are highly spoken, and they are written in a horizontal relationship, both producers and consumers of information. Therefore, without being bound by existing norms, they write their own experiences as if they were speaking, and freely use various new words and expressions to vividly convey the subjective evaluation of taste. Therefore, examining the linguistic characteristics related to the taste of restaurant review texts can contribute to broadening the understanding of new genres and broadening the study of Korean vocabulary. There are a lot of new vocabulary used in restaurant reviews, including abbreviations, foreign languages, dialects and North Koreans, reiterative, compound words, vowels added or syllables repeated forms, and idioms. In addition, figurative expressions are actively used, and various taste expressions related to texture, coffee, and sweetness are used.

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the endings of Korean,‘-ney’ and ‘-guna’, to clarify each distinctive feature. In Korean education,‘-ney’ and‘-guna’ have been dealt with similar grammatical categories. This paper analyzed the significant difference between ‘-ney’ and ‘-guna’ not as terms of evidentiality, which has been understood as distinctive feature, but as terms of mirativity. This paper explains the grammatical restrictions caused by the understanding of ‘-ney’ as instantaneous awareness and ‘-guna’ as processing new knowledge.

This study investigates meanings of Korean degree adverbs in spoken and written registers. With respect to frequency of degree adverbs, the corpus data shows that degree adverbs are used more frequently in spoken registers than written ones. Regarding the usage of occasional degree adverbs(i.e., hapax legomenons), it is predicted that degree adverbs in spoken registers will be used in broader sense than written ones. This quantitative analysis indicates that the usage and functions of degree adverbs are related with registers. The purpose of this study is to explore this prediction by investigating the types of modificand, prosody on each co-occurance. Overall, degree adverbs have its modificand types restrictive. And the polarity of semantic prosody tends not to be subordinate with semantic polarity of modificand itself. This tendency is much stronger in spoken registers than written registers. This suggests that in spoken registers, diversity of modificand types is lower than written registers, whereas diversity of semantic prosody is higher than written registers. These results are consistent with the idea that spoken language is strongly influenced by its context compared to written language.