국어 상징어의 의미전이 양상 (On Shifts in Meaning of Korean Symbolic Words)

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· 발행기관 : 언어과학회
· 수록지 정보 : 언어과학연구 / 67호 / 223 ~ 250페이지
· 저자명 : 임규홍

초록

Korean has more words imitating sounds or shapes as well as symbolic words related with colors or tastes than other languages. It also has another different property by which these symbolic words are transferred into general words, thereby being used as degree adverbs, general adverbs, or nouns. Based on ‘꼭/꾹’, ‘딱/떡/똑/뚝’, ‘싹/썩/쏙/쑥’, and ‘짝/쩍/쪽/쭉’, all of which are one-syllable symbolic words with the first tense sounds, this study aims to reveal the phenomenon in which sound image features of sound-imitating words are used as shape- imitating words as they are, and they are transferred into state adverbs or degree adverbs as they are. An analysis was carried out on individual sound image features of initial sounds, middle sounds, and final sounds, trying to find out how those features are reflected into words. This is a phenomenon unique to Korean, which hard to find in other languages. Along with revealing the characteristics of Korean, the final aim of this analysis is to set up a foundation for raising a question about the arbitrariness hypothesis in which there is no inherent relation between language and sound.

영어초록

Korean has more words imitating sounds or shapes as well as symbolic words related with colors or tastes than other languages. It also has another different property by which these symbolic words are transferred into general words, thereby being used as degree adverbs, general adverbs, or nouns. Based on ‘꼭/꾹’, ‘딱/떡/똑/뚝’, ‘싹/썩/쏙/쑥’, and ‘짝/쩍/쪽/쭉’, all of which are one-syllable symbolic words with the first tense sounds, this study aims to reveal the phenomenon in which sound image features of sound-imitating words are used as shape- imitating words as they are, and they are transferred into state adverbs or degree adverbs as they are. An analysis was carried out on individual sound image features of initial sounds, middle sounds, and final sounds, trying to find out how those features are reflected into words. This is a phenomenon unique to Korean, which hard to find in other languages. Along with revealing the characteristics of Korean, the final aim of this analysis is to set up a foundation for raising a question about the arbitrariness hypothesis in which there is no inherent relation between language and sound.

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