정신공간을 통한 합성어의 인지적 의미해석 = A Cognitive Meaning Costruction in the mental space theory of the Korean Compound Words

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study has purposes to examines the cognitive properties and cognitive meaning construction of the compound words through mental space theory which is suggested by Fauconnier and Turner (1994). Mental space theory is a theory of the meaning construction which crucially involves partitioning the representation of sentence meaning into domains or spaces. A Mental space is a relatively small conceptual packet built up for the purpose of local understanding and action. In Fauconnier and Turner (1994) Metaphoric mappings are one manifestation of a more general mappings process which crucially involves the construction of blended space. They call this new and competing model the "many-space" model, In this paper, I have provided further evidence for the cognitive role of blended spaces in the operation of metaphor-as in the Korean Compound words. Meaning of Compound words is not compositional in the usual sense but develop the appropriate conceptual construction, including blends.