This study aims to help Russian speakers, who would like to learn Korean language, for a better understanding of the Korean onomatopoeia. The study is based on comparing and analyzing the differences of onomatopoeia's usage in Korean and Russian langu...
This study aims to help Russian speakers, who would like to learn Korean language, for a better understanding of the Korean onomatopoeia. The study is based on comparing and analyzing the differences of onomatopoeia's usage in Korean and Russian languages.
The understanding of onomatopoeia is the most difficult area for many Korean language learners, especially for Russian speakers who have different language structure. In addition to this, it should be noted that students are lack of proper study material and absence of well-developed bilingual dictionary that can be referred to while studying Korean onomatopoeias. Viewed in this light, in this study we contrast and analyze the onomatopoeia concept in Korean and Russian languages and examine them together.
While comparing onomatopoeia usage in Korean and Russian languages, Korean has a much broader onomatopoeia in compare to Russian. The main reason for this is a different phonological system and structure. Since there are many in phonological, morphological and syntactic differences between these two languages, Russian speakers experience serious difficulties in learning Korean.
The paper is structured into 5 chapters. Chapter 1 states the purpose, necessity, subject, and method of this study. For deeper analysis we need to know about the concept of onomatopoeia. For this reason, in Chapter 2, we examined the theoretical background of this study. The concepts, definition and characteristics of Korean and Russian onomatopoeias are discussed in this section as well. Chapter 3 provides a contrastive analysis of the Korean and Russian onomatopoeia from the morphological and syntactic point of view. It explains the differences and similarities of both languages and examines at the features in Korean and Russian onomatopoeia sentences. Chapter 4 covers different types of onomatopoeia such as onomatopoeia about animal, things, people, nature and natural phenomena be considered to examine the compatible list and illustrated possible examples. As a result, the onomatopoeias meaning of animal, things, people, nature and natural phenomena in Korean and Russian is discussed in detail. The last Chapter has a conclusion of this study. The part is presenting results and summary of findings is provided and significance is stated.
Therefore this research will be helpful not only for Russian speakers who learn Korean onomatopoeia, but also Korean learners who would like to study Russian.