한국어와 중국어에서 사용되는 죽음에 관한
완곡어의 대조 분석

채 춘 옥

국민대학교

A Contrastive Analysis of Euphemistic Language for Death in Korean and Chinese.

Choon-ok Chae

Abstract

Aeuphemism is a phenomenon of language universally existing in many nationallanguages in the world, which can trace back to ‘taboo’ culture of the primitiveage. A euphemism is to change an expression hearing bad or giving the negativenuance into an expression hearing good or to mitigate the negative nuance. Inthis study, I first examined the prototype theory as a cognitive factor ofeuphemistic language, and then carried out contrastive analysis of euphemismsand composition method replacing death among taboo themes in Chinese andKorean. These expressions can be utilized as an alternative to make educationaleffectiveness utmost by making those who learn Chinese or Korean thoroughlyunderstand euphemisms of two languages.

Key Words : euphemism,taboo,cognitive semantics,prototype theor,death,linguistic contrast

Reference

Vol. 40 No. 4 (2022.12)

Journal Abbreviation j. Korea Saf. Manag. Sci.
Frequency Published four times annually in March, June, September, and December
Doi Prefix 10.14353/sjk.
Year of Launching 1993
Publisher The Sociolinguistic Society of Korea

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