A Cognitive Linguistic Study on Korean Verb “TTEU-DA” in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
The importance of vocabulary has been emphasized since the communicative language teaching was developed. Teaching vocabulary, however, has been negl...
A Cognitive Linguistic Study on Korean Verb “TTEU-DA” in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
The importance of vocabulary has been emphasized since the communicative language teaching was developed. Teaching vocabulary, however, has been neglected in real education field because of the thought that learners should learn vocabularies for themselves. Therefore, it has great significance to discover the aspect of meaning extension of polysemy, which is demanding for foreign learners, in view of human universal cognitive point of view. This study aims at finding out the relations between meanings of polysemy, ‘TTEU-DA’ from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The previous studies on polysemies have a limit that they focused on classification of various usages rather than relationship between their meanings.
The outline of this thesis is as follows.
In chapter 1, the background and the purpose of this study on the polysemy ‘TTEU-DA’ are described and the trend of preceding cognitive linguistic studies on polysemy verbs is discussed as well as their limits.
Theoretic concepts (such as Base and Profile, Trajector and Landmark, Image-schema) required for the cognitive linguistic approach to analyze the meaning of ‘TTEU-DA’ are investigated in chapter 2.
It is verified that ‘TTEU-DA’ is a polysemy by analyzing forms and usage of ‘TTEU-DA’ appeared in the middle Korean in chapter 3. And then, each meaning of ‘TTEU-DA as an object of study is selected. And a prototypical meaning of ‘TTEU-DA’ is postulated on the basis of selection standard for the prototypical meaning.
In chapter 4, several examples of ‘TTEU-DA’ syntax are collected by types and classified. Base on the examples, feature of arguments making a pair with ‘TTEU-DA’ are analyzed and attempt to analyze concrete meanings is made based on the meaning analysis frames introduced in chapter 2. Based on the result of chapter 4, semantic network is proposed that shows directionality with which prototypical meaning has been developed to extended meanings.
Finally, chapter 5 is devoted to a brief summary of each chapter’s results and presenting a significance and limits of this study.
This study would help foreign learners recognize meanings of Korean polysemy verbs and guess the meaning of them appearing in several conversation. Teachers could use this result as an important material when they teach foreign learners about polysemous word in Korean education field.
Finally, I hope that studies on more variety verbs from a cognitive linguistic viewpoint will be performed actively hereafter and it will enable us to find the stereotype of the characteristics of Korean verbs.
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