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Analysis of Polysemous Semantic Relations of Korean Verb ‘jida’

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2008, 27(), pp.127-150
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Min Woo Lee 1

1건양대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze the semantic relations of the Korean verb ‘jida’, which are identified to be various meanings with identical form, and to understand interrelation between the meanings. A lexical meaning should be understood only in the syntagmatic relation in a sentence in which the word is used. Therefore, the author in this study was able to identify the meanings of ‘jida’ through usage analysis of the verb shown in corpus data to extract its meanings as practically used. The author also performed a questionnaire survey on semantic correlation to investigate how speakers categorize the meanings of ‘jida’, a verb used with various meanings. In this survey, all the meanings of the verb ‘jida’ were presented with identical forms to identify how the users understand and distinguish the correlations between the meanings. This study is an attempt to analyze the conception of the subject of language and to identify the cognition of those who use the language in a practical manner. This attempt may lead to reasoning on the relations between meanings. The speakers classified the given meanings by forming a relation for each, and this process may reveal the cognitive aspects of the speakers categorizing the lexical meanings. The motives and mechanisms of such classification may be identical with those that human beings use when they use languages.

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