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Lexical and Semantic Aspects of the Tiles of Korean Films

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2009, 30(), pp.1-30
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Kang, Beom-mo 1

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ABSTRACT

Kang, Beom-mo. 2009. Lexical and Semantic Aspects of the Tiles of Korean Films. Korean Semantics, 30. We collect and examine titles of all the Korean films ever made since 1919 until 2007, while using the corpus linguistic methods. The total of around 6,800 titles are analyzed in terms of the use of words and semantic considerations. Frequencies of words are counted and relatively high frequency words are categorized into semantic groups. Some characteristic words, namely words meaning "love", "woman", "man" etc, are examined in terms of negative and positive semantic prosodies. Moreover, the change of the usage of some important words as time proceeds are studied, from the first period(1919~1925) through the eleventh period(2003~2007). The two main factors of the change of words used in the film titles are diversification and gender equality. The words used in the film titles reflect the content of the films, which again would reflect the interests of general public of the times.

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