일본어 타격동사 「うつ」의 의미 확장에 관한 일고찰

Abstract

This study analyzed the Japanese word ‘うつ(UTSU)’ meaning ‘to hit’ from the cognitive semantic viewpoint , in order to overcome the existing problems in describing and listing the lexical meanings of the words in order of their importance and frequency of use; and the problems of the analyzing methods in the previous studies. In order to overcome the limits of the existing analyzing methods, this study posited ‘action concepts’ and ‘action components’ and then examined under what principle its meaning is expanded from its basic meaning that ‘the subject gives a jolt to the object with something.’ In addition, to determine what happened to the inter-meaning expansion relation, it looked at the commonness and transformation of the action components in each of the meanings. As a result of this, the existing limitations of lexically listing the meanings of one word were overcome, and sufficient explanation of the working principle and background behind its meaning expansion was made if the meaning expansion was ever made from its basic meaning . In particular, the significance of this study can be found in the fact that this analysis was substantiated to be very useful in identifying the commonness and difference in the meaning expansion of the word which shares a similar concept in Korean and Japanese languages. In the future, this study will compare and review not only the aspects of the meaning expansion of the Korean word ‘치다(Chi-da)’ and the Japanese word 「う つ(UTSU), but also the aspects in the cases of other languages as in ‘打’ Chinese and ‘hit’ in English, in order to prove the validity of this method of meaning analysis in identifying the commonness and difference in the meaning expansion of the words which share similar concepts in Korean and Japanese languages.