문어 말뭉치에 나타나는 ‘거품’의 의미와 용법

Abstract

This research investigates the meanings and uses of the word kepwum ‘bubbles’,among many polysemous words, in a Korean written corpus from the perspective of corpus-based cognitive linguistics. First, this research examines dictionary definitions and meanings of kepwum. Second, it shows the distributional properties of kepwum in the database based on its meanings,which are divided into two: (i) literal: ‘small balls of air or gas in a liquid,and (ii) figurative: something unsteady, risky or unlikely to last. Third, this study investigates co-occurrence relations, collocational patterns, and idiomatic meanings of kepwum in the database. Fourth, it explores figurative meanings of kepwum in media discourse, finding out that kepwum is used to show economically unstable, risky, short-lived or inflated situations based on the metaphor [INFLATION IS BUBBLES]. Such findings confirm Deigan’s (2005, 2008) claim that metaphor is context-sensitive and ideological. Finally,this research shows that a corpus-based cognitive approach is a useful tool for characterizing polysemous words.

This research investigates the meanings and uses of the word kepwum ‘bubbles’,among many polysemous words, in a Korean written corpus from the perspective of corpus-based cognitive linguistics. First, this research examines dictionary definitions and meanings of kepwum. Second, it shows the distributional properties of kepwum in the database based on its meanings,which are divided into two: (i) literal: ‘small balls of air or gas in a liquid,and (ii) figurative: something unsteady, risky or unlikely to last. Third, this study investigates co-occurrence relations, collocational patterns, and idiomatic meanings of kepwum in the database. Fourth, it explores figurative meanings of kepwum in media discourse, finding out that kepwum is used to show economically unstable, risky, short-lived or inflated situations based on the metaphor [INFLATION IS BUBBLES]. Such findings confirm Deigan’s (2005, 2008) claim that metaphor is context-sensitive and ideological. Finally,this research shows that a corpus-based cognitive approach is a useful tool for characterizing polysemous words.