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Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Lexicography: the Case of Polysemous Verb ‘chapta’

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2007, 24(), pp.247-279
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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Jeong, Byongcheol. 2007. Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Lexicography: the Case of Polysemous Verb ‘chapta’. Korean Semantics, 24. A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a primary meaning gathers distinctive meanings going through our everyday experience. This study is dedicated to handling polysemous verbs that a lexicographer frequently encounters as attractive but uncomfortable subject within the framework of cognitive approach to principled polysemy. Our Metonymic Model of Meaning Extension(MMME) suggests that, in principle, every polysemous verbs have systematic network of distinctive meanings that can be verified by Langacker's Usage Based Model. Therefore, organizing the interface of an entry word according to MMME can minimize arbitrariness and compensate the layout of demarcation which is the outcome of lexicographer's intuition to some extent. For the goal of making more human-accessible dictionary interface, it is worth to refer to cognitive linguistics' approach which assumes embodied-experience as the main source of conceptualization. Having applied MMME to dictionary making, we could get more cognitively-accessible interface with guidance pictures helping users to understand the experiential basis and syntactic pattern in correspondence to the meaning.

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