한국어와 영어의 유음 음성상징

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the sound symbolism of Korean and English liquids ([ㄹ],[l],[r]), based on the hypothesis that language contains many sound-symbolic elements. For the sake of this purpose, this study shows the evidence that there is a sound symbolism of “movability” in the Korean and English liquids through the analysis of the onomatopoeia and mimesis words, and extends the evidence to the general words. Finally, I propose that the Korean and English liquids have the same sound symbolism of “movability” in common, in spite of the fact that there must be different linguistic and psycho-cultural points of view in making the mental image of “movability”.