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Widening of Lexical Meaning in Russian Loanwards (차용어 유입에 따른 어휘의미 확장 - 현대 러시아어를 중심으로 -)

  • Kang, Ducksoo;Lee, Sungmin
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.31
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    • pp.287-308
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    • 2013
  • Russian language tends to be quite open to borrowing. In Russian it has been for a long time the conventional way of expanding the lexicon, accepting many words from adjacent languages, including Church Slavic. In the contemporary Russian English has been the main source for loanwords. There are several linguistic factors for lexical borrowing: 1. the necessity of denominating new facts, phenomena or concepts, 2. the necessity of differentiating concepts, 3. the necessity of specializing new concepts, 4. the introduction of new international terms, 5. the increase of periphrastic expressions, 6. the needs for the more elegant and modern words. These factors have caused borrowing to enlarge the component of the lexicon and phrasal expressions, but excessive use of foreign words has brought about negative effects such as linguistic pollution. Some borrowed words are assimilated without serious conflicts, but other words undergo semantic changes in confrontation to existing words of similar meanings. These types of semantic changes comprise total change of meaning, reduction of semantic scale and extension of meaning. Semantic changes are caused by linguistic factors such as lexical conflict with existing words or by socio-culural factors such as misunderstanding of foreign words. And extension of meaning shows two types: qualitative extension and quantitative extension. The first means extending the semantic scope of a borrowed word and the latter - increasing the number of its sememe. In contemporary Russian language we can witness two productive phenomena: qualitative extension by socio-cultural factors, in which words with negative nuances are changed into those with positive ones and professional terms become common words, losing their professional meanings. On the other hand, by quantative extension some loanwords change their concrete meanings into abstract ones. In such cases loanwords acquire the additional meanings of abstractness, putting aside their original concrete meanings as the basic. On the contrary, the qualitative extension of adding the special meaning to general words or giving the concrete meaning to abstract words is not productive. And it is rarely witnessed that words of positive nuances are negatively used. It is considered that such cases are partly restricted in the spoken language or the jargon. Such phenomena may happen by the incomplete understanding of English words.

On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English (영어 '보다(see)' 구문에 나타나는 통사와 의미의 상호관련성 연구)

  • Kim, Mija
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.39
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    • pp.329-354
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    • 2015
  • The major goals of this paper are to identify the degree into which the meanings of 'see' verb can be extended, focusing on the extended meanings shown in the expressions that denote our instinctive actions for survival, such as eating or drinking, etc., and to clarify the doubt on whether any syntactic pattern can be associated with the meaning in the process of meaning extension of 'see' verb. For doing this task, this paper picked out 2,000 examples randomly from COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English), in which the verb 'see' is used. This paper classified the sentences into thirteen different sentence types, according to the syntactic patterns. This research showed that these thirteen syntactic types lead us to figure out the process of the meaning extension of the verb 'see'. With this result, this paper made an attempt to provide the four steps toward the meaning extension of verb 'see'. The verb 'see' in the first step denotes the meaning of purely seeing the visualized objects. This verb in the second step expresses the shifted function, under which the agent in the subject position takes the seeing action as a secondary task in order to carry out other main task. The verb in the third step denotes the extended meanings irrelevant to the seeing action, because the sentences on this step do not contain any visualized objects. In the last step this verb functions as conventional implicature whose meaning does not contribute to the whole meaning of a sentence. In addition, this paper identified that the syntactic properties are deeply associated with the process of meaning extension of the verb 'see', and tried to formalize this relationship between the syntax and semantics within the framework of Construction Grammar based on A. Goldberg.

The Characteristics and meanings of the Agricultural Extension Work during the Period of Japanese Rule (일제시대 농촌지도사업의 성격과 의의)

  • Lee, Han-Ki
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.231-243
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    • 1997
  • Objective of the study was to investigate characteristics and meanings of the agricultural extension work during the period of Japanese $rule(1906{\sim}1945)$ through historical review on the work. The agricultural extension work during the period of Japanese rule was categorized into six patterns such as agricultural extension work by (1) government agricultural administration system, (2) agricultural experiment/research institute, (3) public school, (4) through the movement of rural development(Nong-chon-Jinheung Undong), (5) pro-government private organization, and (6) pure private organization. In conclusion, the characteristics of the extension work were defined; 1) a tool and/or method for colonial rule, 2) non-democratic and top-down extension work by administration, 3) authoritative and coercive work initiated by governmental system, 4) nation wide work of cooperation with public and private organization, 5) extension work focused on production increasing food and industrial materials, and 6) extension work initiated by government system without participation of pure private organization. The meanings of the extension work were reviewed in two ways. Firstly, in macro point of view, the work has negative meaning that was utilized as a tool and/or method for Japanese colonial rule, since the extension work was implemented under the direction of agricultural policy and was also directly related to the policy of Japanese colonial government. Secondly, in micro point of view, the work has significant meaning either negative or positive such as 1) beginning of modernized extension work based on experiment and research, 2) introduction of forcible agricultural extension work, 3) inducement of distrust tendency to agricultural policy and agricultural extension work, 4) establishment of basis in hardware of agricultural extension work, 5) production of experience in software of agricultural extension work, and 6) improvement of recognition toward scientific farming and improvement of level in agricultural techniques.

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The Meaning of Rurality in Traditional Three-verse Korean Poem Written by Sadaebu (사대부 시조(時調)의 농촌성(Rurality)을 활용한 체험프로그램 연구 - 충남 홍성군 거북이마을 -)

  • Ch'oi, Ja-Un;Kim, Sang-Bum;Kim, Eun-Ja
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.129-152
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    • 2011
  • The study aims to investigate the meaning of the rurality in traditional three-verse Korean poem written by Sadaebu(사대부). We will discuss integration method for Rural and rurality. Rurality is not physical truth, but personal and subjective thing. The meaning of the rurality produce socially. So, the concept of the Rurality can be interpreted in many ways. Sadaebu in the Joseon period put emphasis on rural as a object of a self-discipline and govern. They compose a poem from rural life. There are various meaning related to rurality in traditional three-verse Korean poem. The rurality meaning of the Sijo written by Yakcheon and Jonjae can define union between the natural order and poetic narrator. poetic narrators accept theirselves to nature and work willingly. The host of the program must make visitors homesick and gives more energy by Sijo experience program. The most import thing is the identification of the visitor and rural. To accomplish these purpose, It needs visitors can sing a sijo by oneself.

On the Concepts and Translations of Terms Related to "Meaning" in Semantics (의미론에서 "의미"와 관련된 용어들의 개념과 번역어)

  • Kang, Beom-Mo
    • Language and Information
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.79-92
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    • 2011
  • Some terms related to "meaning" in semantics are reviewed, particularly those used in Lyons' famous semantics book Semantics 1 and Semantics 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1977). Since Lyons' book is so comprehensive that the semantic terms used in that book cover almost every important notions/terms used in contemporary semantics. With relevant interpretation of the terms, we suggest most appropriate Korean translations, trying to give different translations for different English terms. Terms covered include: 'signify, signification; reference/refer/referent, sense; denotation/denote, connotation/connote; extension, intension; implication/imply, implicature/implicate, entailment/entail; designate, demonstrate/demonstrative'.

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A Study on the Extension Meaning of Expressed Clothing in Novel (복식의 의미확장연구 -소설텍스트를 중심으로-)

  • 유지헌
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.26 no.8
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    • pp.1228-1238
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    • 2002
  • This study attempted to identify that how the meaning of clothes and clothing behavior were extended, and to examine that they, produce what kinds of meaning in the specific contort in a novel, the Honpul. The Frame of meaning analysis proposed by Beaugrande, Dressier, and Damesteter was used as an analyzing method. The 100 texts were collected for analysis from the Honpul volume 1 to 10. Psychological meanings were categorized to sensitivity meaning, disposition meaning and incantation meaning. Those had not only a basic meaning which could be gotten from the practical clothing but also second and third extended meanings. The point of this study was to present a new method and possibility for analyzing the code of costume culture by the extended meanings in novels.

Ambiguity of Reflexives and Case Extension

  • Zuber, Richard
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.542-547
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    • 2007
  • It is suggested that the difference between co-referential and bound reflexive pronouns found in many languages can be accounted for by using the notion of the case extension of a type <1> quantifier. Given this proposal the co-referential pronouns get their meaning when the corresponding NP takes nominal case extension first. Bound reflexives are reflexivisers in the sense that they are not case extensions of quantifiers although they also transform binary relations into sets. Examples from Japanese and from Polish are discussed.

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ON THE q-EXTENSION OF THE HARDY-LITTLEWOOD-TYPE MAXIMAL OPERATOR RELATED TO q-VOLKENBORN INTEGRAL IN THE p-ADIC INTEGER RING

  • Jang, Lee-Chae
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.207-213
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we define the q-extension of the Hardy-Littlewood-type maximal operator related to q-Volkenborn integral. By the meaning of the extension of q-Volkenborn integral, we obtain the boundedness of the q-extension of the Hardy-Littlewood-type maximal operator in the p-adic integer ring.

자(字)와 사소(詞素)의 인신(引申)에 대한 연구

  • Gang, Hye-Geun
    • 중국학논총
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    • no.69
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 2021
  • 所謂本義一般在中國文字學裡就是漢字所表示的本來意義。例如"初"字在 《說文解字》 裡說 : "始也。從刀從衣。裁衣之始也。"根據 《說文解字》 "初"字的本義是"開始"。可是從它的字素"從刀從衣"來看, 沒辦法了解"初"字的本義就是"開始"。"從刀從衣"只能表示"用刀裁衣"。如果沒有說"裁衣之始也", 很難理解"初"字的本義就是"開始"。我們這裡要把"構意"和"本義"區分開來, 才能了解到字的"本義"。我們確定"本義"時, 必須考慮三個概念1)字形結構, 2)字形表示的意義, 3)引申義, 才能掌握"字義"的演變和發展。掌握"字的本義"也很重要, 還有更重要的就是"詞素的引申義", 我們從"詞素的引申義", 可以看出"文化特質", 比如漢語說"油老虎", 可是韓國人習慣用"油河馬"的說法。

A Study on Organistic Line Extension on Digital Space - Focus on NOX digital space - (디지털 공간에 나타난 선의 유기체적 확장성에 관한 연구 - NOX 디지털 공간을 중심으로 -)

  • Yu, Mi-Yeon;Yoon, Jae-Eun
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.148-155
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    • 2008
  • The following research focuses on the formation method of digital space by organistic line extension among various digital formation methods. The paper reflects on the meaning and concept of today's digitalism which enables the application of complex organistic system on space through advanced technology. It also explores the concept of a line in topology which differs in assumptive meaning from traditional Euclidian geometry. The findings of the research are that first, digital space is not optimized, but is a tentative formation in process. A digital space encompasses characteristics such as infinity, possibility, potential, asymmetry, and the force of virtuality such characteristics are expressed through a moving surface constantly changing with direction. Second, a digital space formed by line extension is inseparable and durable since no measurement or dimension is predetermined. Furthermore, its sense of direction and flexibility gives it a feeling of a living organism. Third, a Euclidian methodology called 'NURBS' is being developed to express such a dynamic digital space; this is reflected through three elements, control point, weights, and knots to effectively reflect the characteristics of virtuality. The opportunities of digital space are infinite, and the possibilities of formation methods likewise vast.