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About Several Phenomena of Korean Language Concerning with the Transparency

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2007, 22(), pp.1-23
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Kim, Jung-Nam 1

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ABSTRACT

Kim Jung-nam. 2007. About Several Phenomena of Korean Language Concerning with the Transparency. Korean Semantics, 22. This paper aims at examining of the notion of transparency and giving an explanation to several phenomena in Korean Language Usages with the concept of transparency. I have dealt with the lexicalization, the overlapping of synonymous words, semantic distortion with a Chinese character, making the proper nouns' transparency indistinct, and ensuring the transparency by using the homophones. I assumed that the common cause of above all phenomena is the transparency, and I tried to give an appropriate explain to it. Transparency is a very important motivation in using the certain language forms and changing the lexical or word forms. Since many general speakers mind using the opaque forms, they tend to make every possible effort to gain the transparency. The representations as results of these efforts are the overlapping of synonymous words, semantic distortion with a Chinese character, etc. On the contrary, in the case of proper nouns, we can find a strategy of transparency weaken operating.

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