절단 현상과 의미 응축에 대하여

Abstract

Clipped words are made by clipping a part of a word, and the meaning of clipped words is similar to that of original words. Until now some studies on the formation rules of clipped words have been made, but there are few studies about the meaning of those because people have thought the meaning of clipped words is the same with the meaning of original words. However I paid attention to the fact that although clipped words have the same shape with some syllables of the original word, those are different from the meanning of the syllables. I treated the meaning of clipped words as semantic condensation. Semantic condensation is the phenomenon that clipped word has the same condensing meaning of the original word or phrase. For example, ‘슈퍼’ clipped from ‘슈퍼마켓’ is different from ‘슈퍼－’ that is a part of ‘슈퍼마켓’, but is the same meaning of ‘슈퍼마켓’. Also I found that this clipping phenomenon occurs in phrases as well as words. It led me to approach semantic contagions with a new viewpoint. I examined that ‘싸가지’ in ‘싸가지가 없다’ didn’t change from positive meaning to negative meaning, and ‘싸가지’ which is a preceding component in the phrase ‘싸가지가 없다’ is different from ‘싸가지’ into which the phrase ‘싸가지가 없다’ is condensed. I just began a discussion that semantic contagions can be explained by semantic condensation. I hope that many deep studies on this topic will continue.