단어 사용의 변화와 다의어 생성

초록

Words are first created by the speaker’s naming motivation, and then live out their lives in the speech community, influenced by the speaker’s preferences. Some words are expressed in a new form due to the emergence of a new meaning (concept), while in other cases, a word that has already existed is used as a variation meaning to which a metaphor is applied in a specific context and then becomes a polysemy as a result of its fixed meaning. The latter are widely known as semantic neologism, as they have no new form, only a new meaning added to them. I focus on the polysemous words kephum ‘bubble’, ttekkaps ‘rice cake expense’, and kyothongcengli ‘traffic control’, which acquired new meanings while maintaining their existing forms, and examine how new meanings emerged and spread in Korean society in close relation to social factors based on the appearance patterns in the articles of five newspapers. The traditional focus on polysemy has predominantly centered on the result–oriented perspective of words with multiple meanings (senses). However, this article aims to interpret the polysemy with a complex nature that involves both (1) the generation of new meanings and (2) the change in meaning of existing words (semantic extension) from a process–oriented perspective.

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