Two Types of Verbs Created with Concrete Nouns

Yoon-kyoung Joh(조윤경),Youngju Choi(최영주) 언어과학회 2017 언어과학연구 Vol.0 No.82

Clark and Clark (1979) claim that innovative denominal verbs in English select their meanings uniquely in a given context. However, recently, Choi (2016) suggests that Korean concrete-noun- hata verbs, which correspond to English denominal verbs, possibly select multiple meanings in one context. Adopting the relevance theory of Sperber and Wilson (1986) and Wilson and Sperber (2006), the paper demonstrates that Choi"s suggestion can also be applied to English denominal verbs. This paper also explains why most innovative denominal verbs in English seem to choose a single meaning in a given context. When verbs created with concrete nouns are less stable, they try to maximize cognitive effects by strengthening previously held assumptions and by eliminating false assumptions rather than adding more meanings.

환유 매체 선택의 원리에 작용하는 문화적 상대성과 현저성

최영주 ( Youngju Choi ) 21세기영어영문학회 2023 영어영문학21 Vol.36 No.4

Through the examination of incident(/accident) headline names of Korean and American newspapers, ‘the principles of metonymic vehicle selection’ that Langacker (1993) suggests have been supported in Choi (2020) and Choi (2021). Incidents are named with one or two elements among various elements of an event, such as PLACE, TIME, AGENT, PATIENT, CAUSE, and INSTRUMENT. The studies reveal that AGENT is one of the most frequent metonymic vehicles since agents are, in many cases, humans, confirming the human over non-human principle. Furthermore PLACE is much more frequently used than TIME, confirming the concrete over abstract principle. Based on the previous studies, this paper aims to reveal how cultural and contextual salience interact with the principles of metonymic vehicle selection. Two sets of questionnaires, one for Koreans and the other for Americans, are constructed to see how different headline names are selected based on cultures and on event elements. The result shows that cultural salience heavily influences the choice of event names, overriding the general principle of metonymic vehicle selection

한국수어 다의어의 의미망 분석: [기름] 수어를 중심으로

최영주 ( Youngju Choi ) 한국외국어대학교 언어연구소 2021 언어와 언어학 Vol.- No.93

There has been abundant research on semantic networks of polysemous units but far less of such research on sign languages, despite the fact that polysemy is far more prevalent in the latter. As a case study, this paper observes a polysemous word meaning ‘oil’ in Korean Sign Language and demonstrates how the prototypical meaning ‘oil’ is extended to various meanings through conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonymy. The paper observes that the concept OIL is closely related to the concepts SMOOTHNESS, FAMILIARITY, FLUENCY, and FREQUENCY in KSL, unlike Korean. The cognitive semantics approach to the polysemous word OIL in KSL demonstrates how we, as language users, conceptualize new concepts utilizing what is used for other concepts.

한국어, 영어, 한국수어에 나타나는 [도덕성은 청결함] 은유

최영주 ( Youngju Choi ) 한국외국어대학교 언어연구소 2022 언어와 언어학 Vol.- No.97

Lakoff and Johnson (1999) claim that morality is embodied, meaning that the concept MORALITY is understood as PHYSICAL CLEANLINESS and morality and cleanliness are mutually influenced by each other. Many psychological experiments have been conducted to prove this mutual influence between morality and physical cleanliness. However, very few studies, if any, have focused on linguistic manifestation of the metaphor MORALITY IS PHYSICAL CLEANLINESS. In bridging the gap, this paper examines spoken and sign languages such as Korean, English, and Korean Sign Language, demonstrating the potential of the universality of the metaphor MORALITY IS PHYSICAL CLEANLINESS. The results suggest that psychological link between morality and physical cleanliness is cross-cultural.

영ㆍ미 그림책에 나타나는 학교폭력의 종류 및 원인과 심리 분석

최영주 ( Choi Youngju ) 건국대학교 동화와번역연구소 2021 동화와 번역 Vol.42 No.-

본 논문에서는 학교폭력이라는 주제를 다룬 영ㆍ미 그림책 30권의 내용을 분석하여 학교폭력의 종류와 원인, 원인에 따른 집단화 양상, 그리고 학교폭력이 행해질 때 피해자나 주변인이 느끼는 심리를 분류하였다. 그 결과 ‘차이’를 인정하지 못하고 놀리는 일대일이나 일대다의 정서폭력이 가장 높은 빈도수를 차지하였으며 일대일의 정서 폭력이 주변인의 동조로 인하여 다대일로 확산되었을 때는 정서 폭력에 관계 폭력이 동반되게 된다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 남과 다른 자신에 대하여 자신감을 키워주는 평상시 교육이 학교폭력이 이루어졌을 때 용기 있게 가해자에게 맞설 수 있는 중요한 요소라는 점을 알 수 있었다. This paper analyzes the contents of thirty American and British picture books that depict school bullying. The analysis focuses on the causes of bullying, the question of whether different types of bullying―individual and group--are associated with the causes of bullying, and the attitudes of bullied individuals and bystanders toward bullying. Emotional bullying is more frequently observed than physical or relational bullying, and the most frequent cause of bullying is differences between the bullied individuals and others. Usually a bully starts to tease the victim about his or her differences, and later bystanders join in the bullying. Then the one-on-one bullying evolves to group bullying, which becomes relational as well as emotional. Through the picture book analysis, it has also been revealed that individuals and bystanders can confront bullies when diversity is promoted through education at home and in the classroom.

은유적 함의의 부분성: [삶은 야구] 은유를 중심으로

최영주(Youngju Choi) 현대문법학회 2019 현대문법연구 Vol.103 No.-

Metaphor is a mapping between elements of source and target domains. When the mapping arises, rich background knowledge of source elements, which is called metaphorical inference, is mapped onto a target domain, resulting in metaphorical entailment. Since Lakoff and Johnson (1980), the mapping has been considered as being partial. It has been claimed that some of the elements are highlighted in the mapping and others are hidden. However, the partial nature of the metaphorical entailment has not been discussed so far. Bridging the gap, this paper observes the partial nature of metaphorical entailment, conducting the case study with the metaphor LIFE IS A BASEBALL GAME. The detailed investigation of the metaphor reveals that there are four different types of the partial entailment and that the partial nature of the entailment is due to the metonymic highlighting of various inferences.

신문기사 제목에 나타난 은유와 프레임 전쟁: 삼성 이재용 부회장 구속영장청구 사례를 중심으로

최영주 ( Youngju Choi ) 한국외국어대학교 언어연구소 2018 언어와 언어학 Vol.0 No.80

Conceptual metaphor is a mapping between elements of a source domain and those of a target domain. From the background knowledge of the elements of the source domain, we draw inferences. When those inferences are mapped onto the target domain, we can obtain metaphorical entailments related to the target domain. The entailments contribute to framing our thinking. This paper explores how metaphorical entailments guide us to think in one or another way, through the comparison of metaphors utilized in two newspaper headlines regarding the case of the arrest warrant for Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong. Supporting Lakoff (2000, 2002, 2004) and Lakoff and Wehling (2012), the paper reveals that very simple metaphorical words utilized in different newspapers create different frames, shaping our thinking at a subconscious level.

Stereo Video-See-Through 장치를 위한 버튼형 인터페이스

최영주(Youngju Choi),서용덕(Yongduek Seo) 한국정보과학회 2007 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.34 No.1C

본 논문은 두 대의 카메라로부터 들어온 영상을 보여주는 see-through 장치의 사용 환경하에서 일반적인 사용자도 쉽고 편리하게 컴퓨터 시스템 또는 여러 프로세스들을 제어할 수 있는 사용자 인터페이스를 제안한다. 이를 위해 AR기술을 접목하여 영상이 보이는 화면에 가상의 버튼들을 합성하였으며, 화면상에 보이는 손의 위치를 추적하여 손가락에 의한 버튼의 선택 유무를 판단하고 각 상황에 따른 버튼의 색상 변경을 통해 결과를 나타내었다. 사용자는 단순히 화면을 보며 공중에서 손가락을 움직여 버튼을 선택함으로써 관련 작업을 수행 할 수 있다. This paper proposes a user interface, on see-through system environment which shows the images via two different cameras, that also ordinary user can control the computer systems or other various processes easily. For that, we include an AR technology to synthesize the virtual button to the image which is captured by the camera real-time. And we were looking for the hand position in the image to judge whether the figure selects the button. And the result of judgment visualizes through changing of the button color. The user can easily interact with the system by selecting the virtual button in the screen with watching the screen and moving her fingers at the air.

Stero Video-See-Through를 위한 버튼형 인터페이스

최영주(Youngju Choi),서용덕(Yongduek Seo) 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회 2007 컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지 Vol.13 No.2

Metonymy in color terms of Korean Sign Language

Youngju Choi(최영주),윤소연(토론자) 담화·인지언어학회 2022 담화·인지언어학회 학술대회 발표논문집 Vol.2022 No.4