Cross-linguistic View on Pain Language between English and Korean
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Despite the fast growing research field, cross-linguistic studies regarding English and Korean pain language have not been conducted. Thus, this study examines whether there are differences between English and Korean pain expressions in terms of part of speech, figure of speech, and intensifiers. For this study, 30 English monolinguals and 30 Korean monolinguals participate, and they are asked to write a narrative about their past pain. Pain words and expressions used in each narrative are analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative analysis reveals that there are significant differences between the two languages, and more pain lexical diversities are found in Korean narratives. In addition, findings from the qualitative analysis indicate that significant statistical differences are attributed to a variety of Korean pain words containing distinctive meaning and usage, but there is not much difference in lexico-grammatical representations of pain expressions between English and Korean. These findings suggest that language for pain expression is language-specific, thus it is nearly impossible to find an equivalent pain word in other languages.
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Despite the fast growing research field, cross-linguistic studies regarding English and Korean pain language have not been conducted. Thus, this study examines whether there are differences between English and Korean pain expressions in terms of part of speech, figure of speech, and intensifiers. For this study, 30 English monolinguals and 30 Korean monolinguals participate, and they are asked to write a narrative about their past pain. Pain words and expressions used in each narrative are analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative analysis reveals that there are significant differences between the two languages, and more pain lexical diversities are found in Korean narratives. In addition, findings from the qualitative analysis indicate that significant statistical differences are attributed to a variety of Korean pain words containing distinctive meaning and usage, but there is not much difference in lexico-grammatical representations of pain expressions between English and Korean. These findings suggest that language for pain expression is language-specific, thus it is nearly impossible to find an equivalent pain word in other languages.
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