Maeng (2004) discussed hindrances in communication caused by false friends based on the contrastive analysis of meaning. However, the analysis there had a limitation in that it heavily depended on the semantic contrast from an etymological point of vi...
Maeng (2004) discussed hindrances in communication caused by false friends based on the contrastive analysis of meaning. However, the analysis there had a limitation in that it heavily depended on the semantic contrast from an etymological point of view. In this study I adopt Seleskovitch's concept of three equivalent relationships in translation and attempt to overcome the limitation of my previous study. To be more specific, we demonstrate subtle pragmatic differences of signifie which are affected by those of lexical tone, social context, the direction of human relationship, class of words, collocation, etc. After that a wider range of contrastive analysis should be done by using a larger corpus. Finally I suggest that we continue to make an effort to reflect the analysis to the compilation of a false friends dictionary I a Chinese-Korean dictionary and a Korean-Chinese dictionary.