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Change of Semantic Prosody in Metaphorically Extended Meanings

은유적 의미 확장에서 의미운율의 변화

최영주1*

Choi, Youngju1*

1조선대학교
1Chosun University
30 November 2022. pp. 291-305
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Abstract
Since Firth (1957) and Sinclair (1991), it has long been assumed that speakers’ attitudes towards a word or a group of words in the actual utterance are decided by their collocates. Previous research on the semantic prosody has been conducted around semantically related words, making fine-grained meaning distinctions between the synonymous words. However, a few studies, if any, distinguish between words’ literal and metaphorical senses in defining their semantic prosodies. This paper focuses on whether there is any change in semantic prosody when the literal senses of words are extended to metaphorical ones. The result shows a change in semantic prosody especially when a word is not involved in a word group where positive, negative and neutral prosodies are assigned to their members.
Keywords
semantic prosody
negative/positive prosody
collocates
metaphorical sense
meaning extensions
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  • Publisher :The Modern Linguistic Society of Korea
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국현대언어학회
  • Journal Title :The Journal of Studies in Language
  • Journal Title(Ko) :언어연구
  • Volume : 38
  • No :3
  • Pages :291-305
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.18627/jslg.38.3.202211.291
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