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A study on the change of the semantic domain of emotional words through analysis of historical corpus

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2020, 70(), pp.69-100
  • DOI : 10.19033/sks.2020.12.70.69
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : August 5, 2020
  • Accepted : November 11, 2020
  • Published : December 30, 2020

Lee MinWoo 1

1사이버한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study attempted to capture changes in language use by using statistical methodology that enables detailed and accurate observation of language phenomena hidden in large corpus. To this end, eight contexts of emotion words were extracted from corpus of early 20C and late 20C and corpus analysis was performed. In this study, the method used to grasp the change of language semantic use is to analyze the language semantic information by substituting a vector space having size and direction. By using the statistical weight(TF-IDF), semantic distance measurement using cosine similarity, and density, the corpus was compared to understand the change pattern. At this time, we examined how the semantic change is made concretely by analyzing and comparing the categories and networks that are formed by the relationship of contexts rather than isolated units. As a result of the study, it was possible to capture general meaning changes such as widening and narrowing of meanings in terms of emotional words, and pejorative and ameliorative of meanings.(Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.