SEE와 WATCH의 의미와 연어 비교

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to show the differences of the verbs see and watch by comparing their noun and adverb collocations. This study analyzes 114 noun and 37 adverb collocations which are chosen from BYU/COCA(the Corpus of Comtemporary American English) program. The findings of this study are as follows: According to Lee(2006)’s definition, the meanings of see are defined as ‘To be aware of sth/sb’ and ‘To meet sb’ while those of watch are defined as ‘To look at and pay attention to sth/sb’ and ‘To take care of sth/sb’. The noun and adverb collocations of see and watch are strongly related with the meanings of each verb. See and watch collocate the same nouns(54(47.4%)) such as aunt, conductor etc. The preferred nouns of see(42(36.8%)) are some groups such as criminals, medical personnel, religious personnel etc. and those of watch(18(15.8%)) are other groups like sportsmen, celebrities, passersby etc. The same adverbs which collocate two verbs are the adverbs of tense(6(16.2)) like later, today etc. The preferred adverbs of see (11(29.7%)) are some adverbs such as esp, ibid, socially etc. and those of watch(20(54.1%)) are other adverbs like helplessly, intently, constantly, apprehensively etc. The findings of this study indicate that the meanings of the synonyms and their collocations are strongly related with each other; therefore, acquiring collocation knowledge of each word can help one understand and distinguish these synonyms more easily.