한국어 연극 은유

Abstract

Lim, Hyewon. 2007. The Theater Metaphor in Korean. Discourse and Cognition 14.2, 193-215. This paper explores the metaphorical conceptualization through the concept of THEATER to reveal how Korean language users organize their conceptual structure with their perception and experience. The theater metaphor is a structural metaphor and it exist in our cognitive space. The theater metaphor shows us the cognitive process of the mapping from the visual field to the STAGE. Like the example LIFE IS A THEATER, we can understand the events in the reality in terms of a THEATER where a series of events is going on in the stage. We regard the scene of the event as the ACTOR'S ACTING in the THEATER based on a DRAMA/ SCENARIO. This research validates cognitive processes by which language users conceptualize their physical experience and build the conceptual structure. Also, the theater metaphor is of experiential basis, because it is motivated by language users’ experiences and knowledge about the theater. (Sangmyung University)